Unknown Sayings

Let the dead bury the dead.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy
all-powerful influence?

Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy
all-powerful influence?

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

The more they drink the more they thirst.

The more they drink the more they thirst.

Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.

Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.

Which of these two is the greater fool?

Which of these two is the greater fool?

He bristles with hair, like a sea-urchin or a hunted boar.

He bristles with hair, like a sea-urchin or a hunted boar.

Apollo does not always bend his bow.

Apollo does not always bend his bow.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.