 Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. |
| A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. |
| First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife. |
| He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows. |
| Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. |
| With foxes we must play the fox. |
| The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. |
| Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong. |
| There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. |
| Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear. |
| Poor men's reasons are not heard. |
| Old foxes want no tutors. |
| Eaten bread is forgotten. |
| A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife. |
| He that travels much knows much. |
| Change of weather is the discourse of fools. |
| It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. |
| Despair gives courage to a coward. Topics: Courage |
| Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. |
| Today is yesterday's pupil. |
