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Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way.
- Clement Walker,
Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way.
- Clement Walker,
Alas! sir,
In what have I offended you? What cause
Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure?
Alas! sir,
In what have I offended you? What cause
Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure?
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong
to him.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong
to him.
How can man die better,
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of this fathers
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How can man die better,
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of this fathers
And the temples of his gods?
He that hath lands hath quarrells.
He that hath lands hath quarrells.
I know not which way to turn. [I am in a quandary.]
I know not which way to turn. [I am in a quandary.]