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A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast. - [Guests] A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two. - [Ability : Dwarf] A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning. - [Life] A hundred load of worry will not pay an ounce of debt. - [Worry] A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. - [Beauty] All may have, if they dare try, a glorious life or grave. - [Ambition] Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend upon such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, yet is he not certain to win the game. - [Chance] Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening. - [Affliction] Destiny is always dark. - [Destiny] Fierceness makes error a fault and truth discourtesy. - [Controversy] From small fires comes oft no small mishap. - [Fire] He hath no leisure who useth it not. - [Leisure] He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy. - [Clergymen] If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him. - [Anger] If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others. - [Abundance] If you walk on snow you cannot hide your footprints. - [Evidence] In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell. - [Dress] It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle. - [Worth] Keep good company, and you shall be of the number. - [Associates] Least at thine own things laugh. - [Laughter] Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie. - [Cowards] Lord! who hath praise enough? - [Praise] Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back. - [Love] None is a fool always, everyone sometimes. - [Fools] None knows the weight of another's burden. - [Burdens] Displaying page 1 of 52 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52
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