Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue. |
Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge |
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself. |
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretoken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have the jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow |
It is not good to wake a sleeping lion |
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. |
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen |
Nothing is achieved before it be thoroughly attempted |
Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves |
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is. |
Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts |
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care |
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve |
With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. |