Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher,
it goes ill with the pitcher.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher,
it goes ill with the pitcher.

How the devil is it that fresh features
Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?

How the devil is it that fresh features
Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?

Breed up a crow and he'll pick out your eyes.

Breed up a crow and he'll pick out your eyes.

Amongst good men two men suffice.

Amongst good men two men suffice.

Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to read more

Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th's first.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

And we must take the current when it serves;
Or lose our ventures.

And we must take the current when it serves;
Or lose our ventures.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

Of faire things, the Autumne is faire.

Of faire things, the Autumne is faire.