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Poverty is the mother of health.
Poverty is the mother of health.
To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.
To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.
One stroke fells not an oke.
One stroke fells not an oke.
That father perished at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake.
That father perished at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those
matters with which I am unacquainted.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those
matters with which I am unacquainted.
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]
For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
It is the woman's read more
For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
It is the woman's part.
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.