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While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.
Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.
Who could be happy and alone or good?
Who could be happy and alone or good?
The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
Consider not what may do, but what it will become you to do.
Consider not what may do, but what it will become you to do.
Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.
Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.
When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make
up his mind to be read more
When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make
up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.
They appear but here and there swimming in the vasty deep. [The
portions of some books really worth notice read more
They appear but here and there swimming in the vasty deep. [The
portions of some books really worth notice are few and far
between.]