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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
Get money, money still!
And then let virtue follow, if she will.
Get money, money still!
And then let virtue follow, if she will.
Bliss itself is not worth having,
If we're by compulsion blest.
Bliss itself is not worth having,
If we're by compulsion blest.
Laughter
Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.
Laughter
Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).
To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to
our manners, and removes all awkwardness.
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to
our manners, and removes all awkwardness.
He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne.
He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne.