You May Also Like / View all maxioms
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
Tell me, thou old man, worthy of a child's bauble.
Tell me, thou old man, worthy of a child's bauble.
Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.
Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the
Dead (i.e. books).
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the
Dead (i.e. books).
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.
The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.
The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.
Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.
Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.
