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Better late than never.
[Lat., Potius sero quam nunquam.]
Better late than never.
[Lat., Potius sero quam nunquam.]
Death rides on every passing breeze,
He lurks in every flower.
Death rides on every passing breeze,
He lurks in every flower.
Conversation makes one what he is.
Conversation makes one what he is.
A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.
A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.
The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.
The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.
The more the eggs, the worse the hatch,
The more the fish, the worse the catch.
The more the eggs, the worse the hatch,
The more the fish, the worse the catch.
Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.
Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.
