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The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.
When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.
Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.
Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
