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What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot!
Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--
Once taught a jay read more
Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot!
Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--
Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods,
And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot!
Love makes a good eye squint.
Love makes a good eye squint.
Nothing can come of nothing.
Nothing can come of nothing.
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
Much will always wanting be
To him who much desires.
Much will always wanting be
To him who much desires.
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
