Proverbs

[roger]

A righteous man makes a mistake and sins

A wicked man makes a mistake and does the right thing


Roger

[guyguy]

Wife who put husband in doghouse soon find husband in cathouse

[roger]

Wife who puts husband in any house
Got married to a husband without a house



Roger

[letric]

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example (Francois De La Rochefoucauld)

[letric]

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.
(Francois De La Rochefoucauld)

[letric]

Who knows himself knows others.

(Chinese proverb)

[letric]

Talking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

[letric]

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone
(Adapted from Cicero's De officiis (1st century BC), in which the saying is attributed to the great general Scipio Africanus)

[simplecandice]

The longest rope, always have an end.

[letric]

Talking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

[letric]

One may live without father, or mother, but one cannot live without God.

[letric]

It is too late to call back yesterday.

[Scorpio]

Wife who put husband in doghouse soon find husband in cathouse

Did u just make this one up ? :?

[Scorpio]

You can't catch a fly with vinegar.

[Scorpio]

You have to close one eye to make a friend, and you have to close both eyes to keep that friend.

[Scorpio]

I cried for I had no shoes, then on the streets I saw a man with no legs.

[letric]

All art is an imitation of nature.

[letric]

All things are obedient to money

Art is long, life is short

[letric]

Difficult things become easier with practice

Even while they teach, men learn

[Scorpio]

A friend's frown is better than a fool's smile.

[Scorpio]

Those who don't lean from history are doomed to reapeat it.

[letric]

It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know

[letric]

No one deserves punishment for a thought

[letric]

Nothing is swifter than rumour

[letric]

First think, then speak

[letric]

Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy.

[letric]

The African race is an indiarubberball; the harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise,
African proverb

[letric]

There is no disputing a proverb, a fool, and the truth

[letric]

A complete Christian must have the works of a Papist, the words of a Puritan, and the faith of a Protestant.

Traditionally, Catholics teaching has stressed the value of good works while Protestantism has insisted that salvation comes through faith alone; the proverb implies that Puritans are noted for neither faith nor works but only "words".

[Scorpio]

Clothes do not make the man.

[letric]

To have a stomach and lack meat; to have meat and lack a stomach; to be in bed and cannot rest; are great miseries.
"Stomach" here means "appetite"

[letric]

Brevity is the soul of wit.

A quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet (1600). In this original context "wit" meant "wisdom" rather than "clever humour"

[letric]

He must have leave to speak who cannot hold his tongue.

A reference to the often impolite insistence of the talkative to voice their opinions.

[letric]

One man may steal a horse, while another may not look over a hedge.

Implies that though personal favour or prejudice, the misdeed of one person may be overlooked while a trivial action by another is condemned. To "look over a hedge" was formerly a euphemism for urinating in the open air (men).

[letric]

Every man must know his own business best.

[simplecandice]

Young ladies must be seen and not heard.

[letric]

No man is born wise or learned

[letric]

Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

[letric]

What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning.

There are two possible implications: that fool only learns through his errors, or that that fools procrastinate.

[Scorpio]

Discretion is the better part of valour.

[Scorpio]

A great talker is a great liar

(similar to)

Empty Vessels make most noise.

[letric]

Affairs, like salt fish, ought to be a good while a-soaking.

The reference is to fish treated with salt as a preservative.

[letric]

Hurry bequeaths disappointments.

(African proverb)

[letric]

Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of.

(The proverb adapts a saying of St, Augustine of Hippo (4th-5th century AD), who wrote of two thieves crucified with Christ: "Do not despair; one of the the thieves was saved. Do not presume, one of the thieves was damned."

[letric]

Look to this day
Dreams of yesterday whisper to me; visions of tomorrow beckon. Yet it is today where I must live, here where the current of life quickens my blood, electrifying each moment.
Adapted from KALIDASA, INDIAN PLAYWRIGHT (5TH CENTURY)

[letric]

Awaiting the butterfly
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

[letric]

Open your eyes


I open my eyes to the wonder of being. Delighted at the way my life turns out, amazed at the beauty of it all, I am happy.

Modern Affirmation

[Scorpio]

As you sow, so shall you reap.

[Scorpio]

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

[Scorpio]

Procastination is the thief of time.

[Scorpio]

Good things comes to those who wait.

[letric]

The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat

Genesis ch. 3. v.13

[letric]

I am THAT I am

Exodus ch3, v.14

[letric]

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tent of Kedar, as the curtain of Solomon.

Song of Solomon ch.1, v.5

[simplecandice]

Dont hang your hat where your hands cant reach it.

[Scorpio]

A person is known by the company he keeps

[Scorpio]

One good turn deserves another

[letric]

Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.

[letric]

The eye that sees all things else sees not itself.

[letric]

Every couple is not a pair.

[letric]

Solitude is often the best society.

[Wayne]

Advice is free, the right answer will cost plenty.

[letric]

Good counsel has no price.

[letric]

Advice is a stranger, if welcome he stays for the night; if not welcome he returns home the same day.

[letric]

Counsel must be followed, not praised.

[letric]

Much learning does not teach understanding.

-Heraclitus. (c.540-c.480BC)

[letric]

The I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have
given them; and this house, which I have hallowed
for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel
shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.
1Kings ch.9 , v. 7

[Scorpio]

The race is not for the swiftest but for those who endure to the end.

[letric]

He that brings good news knocks hard.
Because he is confident of a good reception.

[letric]

Too much spoils, too little does not satisfy.

[letric]

Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.


(Adapted from one of Bernard Shaw's 'Maxim for Revolutions (1930). "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches". Modern variation substitute "manages" or " attends conferences" for
"teaches".

[letric]

And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's
wisdom...there was no more spirit in her
1 Kings ch.10, v.7

[letric]

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and clearly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

[CPL593H]

you need a long spoon to sup with the devil

[letric]

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

[letric]

King David and King Solomon
Led merry, merry lives,
With man, many lady friends,
And many, many wives,
But when old age crept over them-
With many, many qualms!-
King Solomon wrote proverbs
And King David wrote the Psalms.

King David and King Solomon (1935)

[drolannod]

HALF THE TRUTH IS OFTEN A WHOLE LIE

[drolannod]

He that will strive must first ask his wife.

[drolannod]

A house divided cannot stand.

[drolannod]

A door must either be opened or shut.

[drolannod]

I live and dwell in the totality of possibilities. Where I am is all good.

[drolannod]

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

[drolannod]

After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.

[letric]

The three most important things a man has are,
briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious
opinions.

Further Extracts Notebooks (1934) p.93

[letric]

The act of God brings harm to no one.

[letric]

What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.

[letric]

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock at night.

[letric]

Like author, like book
The style is the man.

Implies that the style of writing reveals the personality of the author. In this from the saying implies is a quotation from Comte de Buffon's Discours sur le style (1753), an address to the Academie Francaise that is regarded as a model of the French Classical style.
However,the idea that literary style shows or reveals the author is much older

[letric]

An opportuniy is often lost through deliberation.

[letric]

He that eats till he is sick, must fast till he is well.

[letric]

If a fool woulld persist in his folly he would become wiser.

(The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

[letric]

Win or lose, never regret.

[letric]

The wish is the father to the thought.

[letric]

Then I will
cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.

1 Kings ch. 9 v.7

[letric]

For my thought are not your thoughts, neither
are your ways my ways, saith the Lord
ISAIAH ch.55. v.8

[letric]

Love makes all men equal

[letric]

Everything tempts the man who fears temptation.

[letric]

A proverb is one man's wit and all men wisdom.

In B. MacKiintosh, Sir James MacKintosh (1835) vol.2

[letric]

Now is now, and then was then.

[letric]

The half is better than the whole.

[letric]

Love without return is like a question without an answer.

[guyguy]

Love without return is like a question without an answer.More like "for the birds."

[letric]

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

In R.J. Mackintosh Sir James Mackintosh (1835) vol. 2,

[letric]

He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

[letric]

A tale-bearer is worst than a thief.

[letric]

Don't throw out your dirty water until you get in fresh.

[letric]

He is lifeless that is faultless.

[letric]

Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could see the shore.

[letric]

If a man receives no guests at home, when abroad he'll have no hosts.

[letric]

There are two sides to every question

[letric]

Don't stitch your seam before you've tacked it.

[letric]

He is lifeless that is faultless.



Men do more things through habit than through reason

[letric]

He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

[chineerat]

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."

Earl Nightingale
1921-1989, Radio Announcer, Author and Speaker

[chineerat]

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, Poet, Playwright, Actor

[letric]

The eyes are the window of the soul

mid 19th century

[letric]

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do
today

(Proverbs)

[letric]

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

[letric]

Men do more things through habit than through reason

An opinion is not necessarily a fact.

[lexbarker]

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Ben Franklin

[letric]

Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I
have given them; and this house which I have
hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my
sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people 1 Kings ch. 10, v.4

[letric]

Go abroad and you'll hear news of home

[letric]

Our own opinion is never wrong

[letric]

Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy.

[letric]

A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

[letric]

Be what you would seem to be.

[letric]

Never answer a question until it is asked.

[letric]

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In
thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous,.
In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy,
In family life, be completely present,
Lao Tzu (.604-53BCE)

[letric]

He that promises too much, means nothing.

[letric]

An eye for an eye only ends up making
the whole world blind.




MK Ghandi

[letric]

In most things success depends on knowing how
long it takes to succeed.





Montesquieu (1689-1755)

[letric]

Vision or Imagination is a Representation of
what Externally Exists, Really and Unchangeably.
(A vision of last judgement) 1810



He who has few things to desire cannot have
many to fear
Annotations to Bacon's 'Essays' (c.1798)

[letric]

If the mountain will not come to Mahomet,, Mahomet must go to the mountain.

According to folk tradition, certain Arabs once asked Mohammed to give proof of his God-given mission by performing a miracle.
He accordingly called on Mount Safa to up root itself and come before him; when it did no such thing, the Prophet immediately gave
thanks to God for His mercy, on the grounds that had the mountain obeyed they would have been killed in the upheaval. The
saying implies that it is wise to bow to the inevitable.

[letric]

If youth only knew; if age only
could.


Henri Estienne

[letric]

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot
be unlived, but if faced with courage, need
not be lived again.

- Maya Angelou

[letric]

the world was not left to us by our parents, it was lent to us by our children.


African Proverb

[letric]

To err is human , but it feel divine.

[letric]

If we have wealth but no friends, we
will never be happy, if we have friends,
we will be happy, even without wealth.


Epicurus

[letric]

One thing alone I charge you. As you live,
believe in life.


W,E. B. Du Bois

[letric]

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men
are poor ... not that men are wicked ... but
that men know so little of men.



(The Soul of the Black Folk)

[letric]

Truth is absolute, all truth is 'final truth'
or not truth at all.

[letric]

Letting go is not getting rid of.
Letting go is letting be.

Buddhist monk and writer Jack Kornfield.

[letric]

To himself everyone is immortal; he may
know that he is going to die, but he can
never know that he is dead.


Samuel Butler

[letric]

Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have
given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name,
will I cast out of my sight; Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people.


1 Kings ch.9 v. 7

[letric]

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold
in pictures of silver

Proverbs 25:11

[letric]

A place for everything, and everything in its
place.

[letric]

To err is human , but it feel divine.

Change the name and not the letter, change for
the worse and not the better.

meaning that it is unlucky for a woman to marry a man
whose surname begins with the same letter as her own.

[letric]

Truth is absolute, all truth is 'final truth'
or not truth at all.


Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child if full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving
And a child that's born on the Sabbath day
Is fair and wise and good and gay.

[letric]

A place for everything, and everything in its
place.

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies
out of the window.

[letric]

He that promises too much, means nothing.

Some have meat and cannot eat,
Some can not eat that want it:
But we have meat and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit.

'The Kirkudbright Grace (1790)
also known as the
The Selkirk
Grace ]

[letric]

A place for everything, and everything in its
place.


You can do very little with faith, but you can do
nothing without it.

SB

[letric]

Be what you would seem to be.

If one corrects oneself - one improves
oneself - so people say: but one can't correct
what one does. It's the power of revising that
makes writing such a colourless affair,.

The Vatican Cellars (1914)

[letric]

When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall
into the ditch.

see Bible 101:22

[letric]

Better one house spoiled than two
(of two wicked or foolish people joined in marriage)

[letric]

Success has many fathers, while failure is an
orphan

[letric]

The darkest hour is just before dawn.

[letric]

When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall
into the ditch.

see Bible 101:22

Cleverness and stupidity are generally in the same boat
against wisdom

J.A. Spender

[letric]

When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall
into the ditch.

see Bible 101:22

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You
can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguid Mahfouz

[letric]

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by
decrease in bitterness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[letric]

The apple never falls far from the tree

[letric]

The darkest hour is just before dawn.


Desperate diseases must have desperate
remedies.

[letric]

The darkest hour is just before dawn.

What can't be cured must be endured.

[letric]

The darkest hour is just before dawn.

You should know a man seven years before you
set his fire.

[letric]

The darkest hour is just before dawn.

Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

[letric]

Poverty is no disgrace, but it's a great
inconvenience.

[letric]

Experience is the father of wisdom

[letric]

Judge, and be prepared to be judged.

[letric]

Money isn't everything

[letric]

Blood is thicker than water

[letric]

A miss is as good as a mile

(the syntax has been distorted by abridgement: the original
form was
an inch in a miss is as good as an ell.

[letric]

Money isn't everything

money can't buy happiness

[letric]

Blood is thicker than water

Blood will tell

[letric]

Experience is the father of wisdom



Experience keeps a dear school.

[letric]

Poverty is no disgrace, but it's a great
inconvenience.

Poverty is not a crime

[letric]

Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

Nothing is certain but death and taxes

[letric]

The apple never falls far from the tree



As a tree falls, so shall it lie

[letric]

Half the truth is often a whole lie

[letric]

He that promises too much, means nothing.

He that lives in hope dances to an ill tune.

[letric]

Half is better than the whole.

[letric]

Appearances are deceptive

[letric]

Half the truth is often a whole lie

Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood.

[letric]

Half the truth is often a whole lie

He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree.

[letric]

A friend's frown is better than a fool's smile.

Man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his
client

[letric]

- Maya Angelou

Children's talent to endure stems from their
ignorance of alternatives.

[letric]

Half the truth is often a whole lie

Anyone who is truly kind can never be
unhappy. Anyone who is truly wise can
never be muddled.

Confucius

[letric]

Anyone who is truly kind can never be
unhappy. Anyone who is truly wise can
never be muddled.

Confucius

Know thyself

[letric]

Children's talent to endure stems from their
ignorance of alternatives.

Children and fools tell the truth

[letric]

Man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his
client

Empty sacks will never stand upright.

[letric]

He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree.

Every land has its own law.

[letric]

Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood.


A hungry man is an angry man.

[letric]

He that lives in hope dances to an ill tune.

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

[letric]

Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woes,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving, and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for it's living,
And a child that's born on the Sabbath day
Is fair and wise and good and gay.

[letric]

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do
today.

[letric]

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve
will reah.

[letric]

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

What you've never had you never miss.

[letric]

Children's talent to endure stems from their
ignorance of alternatives.

Children are certain cares, but uncertain
comforts.

[letric]

Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woes,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving, and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for it's living,
And a child that's born on the Sabbath day
Is fair and wise and good and gay.



Children should be seen and not heard.

[letric]

Facts are strubborn things.

[letric]

Time change and we with time.

attributed to the Emperor Lothar1 (795-855) in the form
Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. [all things
change, and we with them]; now sometimes
changed as Tempora mutantur.

[letric]

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example (Francois De La Rochefoucauld)

Is there a man free, other than he, who has the power of passing life in the manner he pleases?
(i.e., the essence of freedom is to do as one pleases witrhout injury to another( Persius)

[letric]

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.


Before old age I took care to live well; in old
age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willinglly.
(Seneca)

[letric]

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit
before a fall
(16:18)

[letric]

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs
up anger

(15:1)

[letric]

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs
up anger

(15:1)



The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.

[letric]

(Seneca)

You can only die once.

[letric]

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs
up anger

(15:1)

Circumstances alter cases.

[letric]

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit
before a fall
(16:18)

Every dog is allowed one bite.

(based on the common law rule by which the keeper of a
domestic animal was not liable for harm done by it unless
he knew of it vicious propensities)

[letric]

Circumstances alter cases.

A clean conscience is a good pillow.

[letric]

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

(probably intended as two separate admonitions, but
sometimes interpreted to mean that if you feed a cold
you will have to starve a fever later)

[letric]

If anything can go wrong it will.

commonly known as Murphy's Law.
said to have been invented by George
Nichols in 1949, based on a remark by his colleague.

[letric]

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

conventionally represented by the monkeys (the three wise
monkeys) covering their eyes, ears, and mouth respectively
with their hands.

[letric]

Bad money drives out good.

(known as Gresham's Law)

[letric]

A chain is no longer than its weakest link.

[letric]

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

conventionally represented by the monkeys (the three wise
monkeys) covering their eyes, ears, and mouth respectively
with their hands.


Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man
healthy, wealthy and wise.

[letric]

A chain is no longer than its weakest link.

Experience is the best teacher.

[letric]

Bad money drives out good.

(known as Gresham's Law)

Experience is the father of wisdom.

[letric]

I am the way, and the truth, and life; no one comes to
the Father, but by me.
John 14:6

[letric]

Experience is the father of wisdom.


The love of wisdom - deals with some of the most general questions
about the universe and our place in it. Is the world entirely physical
in its composition and process? Is there purpose to it? Can we know
anything for certain? Are we free? Are there any absolute values
It differs from science, in that its questions cannot be answered
empirically or by experiment, and from religion, in that its purpose is
intellectual, and so pursued without revelation.

[letric]

A clean conscience is a good pillow.


Conscience makes cowards of us all
Shakespeare

[letric]

Come live with me and you'll know me.

[letric]

He that is slow to anger is better than the
mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that
taketh a city.
Proverbs: 16:32

[letric]

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest
not what a day may bring forth
Bible. Proverbs 27:1

[letric]

Bible. Proverbs 27:1

The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked: who can know it.
Bible: Jeremiah 17:9

[letric]

There are two sides to every question.

[letric]

He that is slow to anger is better than the
mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that
taketh a city.
Proverbs: 16:32

There is a time and place for everything.

[letric]

There are two sides to every question.



There is none so blind as those who will not see.

[letric]

Bible. Proverbs 27:1



Young men may die, but old men must die.

Young folks think old folks to be fools, but old
folks know young folks to be fools.

[letric]

The mind that is cheerfully contented with the present
will shrink from caring about anything beyond, and will
temper the bitter things of life with an easy smile.
(Horace).

[letric]

The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.

I know the nature of women; when you will they wont, when you wont they long for it.
(Terrene)

[letric]

Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the
dearest

[letric]

I know the nature of women; when you will they wont, when you wont they long for it.
(Terrene)



we covet what is guarded.

[letric]

Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the
dearest

Four eyes see more than two.

[letric]

I know the nature of women; when you will they wont, when you wont they long for it.
(Terrene)

Love begats love

[letric]

My son is my son till he gets a wife, but
my daughter's my daughter all the days of her
life.

[letric]

Nothing succeeds like success.

[letric]

Nothing succeeds like success.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -
even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life
has illustrated it.
JK

[letric]

Young folks think old folks to be fools, but old
folks know young folks to be fools.


Answer a fool according to folly, lest he be
wise in his own conceit.

Bible Proverbs, 26:5

[letric]

Nothing succeeds like success.


The best plan is, as the common proverb has it,
to profit by the folly of others.

Pliny the Elder

[letric]

My son is my son till he gets a wife, but
my daughter's my daughter all the days of her
life.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her
son, and another woman twenty minutes to
make a fool of him.
HR

[letric]

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her
son, and another woman twenty minutes to
make a fool of him.
HR

Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman,
and eight for a fool

[letric]

Nothing succeeds like success.




Put your trust in God, and keep your powder
dry.

[letric]

My son is my son till he gets a wife, but
my daughter's my daughter all the days of her
life.

See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have
good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll
have all day.

[letric]

Put your trust in God, and keep your powder
dry.

A still tongue makes a wise head.

[letric]

Love begats love

A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old
as she looks.

[letric]

we covet what is guarded.

A mouse may help a lion

(alluding to Aesop's fable of the lion and the rat)

[letric]

Know thy self

inscribed on the temple of Apollo of Delphi, in the form
gnothi sauton: Plato in Protagoras 343 b, ascribed the
saying to the Seven Wise Men.

[letric]

A still tongue makes a wise head.

They must needs go whom the Devil drives.

[letric]

There is none so blind as those who will not see.

Necessity knows no law and discriminates in
favour of no man or race.

[letric]

They must needs go whom the Devil drives.

Nothing can be produced out of nothing
DL

[letric]

They must needs go whom the Devil drives.


Authority compels people to obedience,
but reason persuades he to it.
CR