You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.
Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which
we can have is disregarded.
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which
we can have is disregarded.
Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its
approach.
Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its
approach.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
You must loose a flie to catch a trout.
[You must lose a fly to catch a trout.]
You must loose a flie to catch a trout.
[You must lose a fly to catch a trout.]
Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
read more
Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]
