You May Also Like / View all maxioms
'Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill.
'Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill.
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
As fierce as hell, or fiercer still,
A woman piqued who has her will.
As fierce as hell, or fiercer still,
A woman piqued who has her will.
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
