You May Also Like / View all maxioms
To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid
satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from read more
It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid
satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from praise
after he is dead.
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out
of thy sleep?
Yet a little read more
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out
of thy sleep?
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
hands to sleep:
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,
and thy want as an armed man.
There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.
There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.
He that steals an egge, will steal an oxe.
He that steals an egge, will steal an oxe.
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall read more
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes
of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
