The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. |
The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure; but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends. |
The discontented man finds no easy chair. |
The doors of wisdom are never shut. |
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. |
The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly. |
The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue |
The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands |
The Family of Fools is ancient |
The favor of the Great is no inheritance. |
The first mistake in public business is the going into it. |
The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it. |
The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife. |
The good Paymaster is Lord of another man's Purse |
The good Spinner hath a large Shift. |