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Prevention is better than cure.
Prevention is better than cure.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
[Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]
Familiarity breeds contempt.
[Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster!
You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster!
My sun has not yet set for ever.
My sun has not yet set for ever.
Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.
Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
Here beauty hangs upon the cheek of night,
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.
Here beauty hangs upon the cheek of night,
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.
