Read moreI do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Read moreTis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
Read moreI believe there’s no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
Read more‘Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Read moreThere is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Read moreNo padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.