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A simple maiden in her flower
Is worth a hundred coats of arms.
A simple maiden in her flower
Is worth a hundred coats of arms.
A good bargaine is a pick-purse.
A good bargaine is a pick-purse.
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
I give not gold for mere expectations.
I give not gold for mere expectations.
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.
It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
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Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
He who would have the kernel must crack the shell.
He who would have the kernel must crack the shell.
