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Apothegms are, in history, the same as the pearls in the sand, or the gold in the mine. - [Apothegms] As a looking-glass, if it is a true one, faithfully represents the face of him that looks in it, so a wife ought to fashion herself to the affection of her husband, not to be cheerful when he is sad, nor sad when he is cheerful. - [Matrimony] Charity resembleth fire, which inflameth all things it toucheth. - [Charity] Experience is the common schoolhouse of fools and ill men. Men of wit and honesty be otherwise instructed. - [Experience] Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. - [Abundance] His eloquent tongue so well seconds his fertile invention that no one speaks better when suddenly called forth. His attention never languishes; his mind is always before his words; his memory has all its stock so turned into ready money that, without hesitation or delay, it supplies whatever the occasion may require. - [Eloquence] I talk of cheese, you of chalk. - [Proverbs] If a man get a fever, or a pain in the head with overdrinking, we are subject to curse the wine, when we should rather impute it to ourselves for the excess. - [Excess] If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. [Lat., Si calceum induisses, tum demum sentires qua parte te urgeret.] - quoted by, as founded on the remarks of Paulus Aemilius when he divorced his wife [Shoemaking] It is in vain to gather virtues without humility; for the Spirit of God delighteth to dwell in the hearts of the humble. - [Humility] (Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.] - quoting Pomponius, of Julian, original phrase one foot in the ferry boat, Charon's boat [Grave] Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived, and apt to have ague fits. - [Beauty] Man is to man a god or a wolf. - [Proverbs] Not even the gods can withstand necessity. - [Proverbs] Prevention is better than cure. - [Proverbs : Sickness] The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.] - quoted by [Appearance] Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.] - Adages [Evil : Proverbs] Concealed talent brings no reputation. [Lat., Occultae musices nullus respectus.] - Adagia [Talent] The fox has many tricks, the hedgehog only one. [Lat., Multa novit vulpes, verum echinus unum magnum.] - Adagia [Foxes] Betwixt the devil and the deep sea. - Adagia (ch. III, cent. VI, 94), quoted from the Greek [Choice : Proverbial Phrases] Among the blind, the squinter rules. [Lat., Inter caecos regnat strabus.] - Adagia (III, IV, 96) [Eyes] In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.] - Adagia (III, IV, 96) [Eyes : Proverbs] It is well known that a one-eyed man can rule among the blind. [Lat., Scitum est inter caecos luscum requare posse.] - Adagia, Dignitas et Excellentia et Inequalitas, sub-division, Excel. et Ineq., (about 1500) [Eyes] The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears. [Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit.] - Adagia--Chil (III, cent. V, 8, heading) [Failure] Procrastination brings loss, delay danger. [Lat., Dilatio damnum habet, mora periculum.] - Adolescens [Time] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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