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A friend should bear a friend's infirmities.
A friend should bear a friend's infirmities.
Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink;
So may he cease to write, and learn to think.
Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink;
So may he cease to write, and learn to think.
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
Old soldiers never die;
They fade away!
Old soldiers never die;
They fade away!
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]
After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered
together.
Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered
together.