Wisdom Quotes — page 483

1943. If thou canst not find Tranquility in thyself; 'twill be to little Purpose to seek it anywhere else.

An yll wynde that blowth no man to good.

All beginnings are involuntary.

1817. Keep thy eyes wide open before Marriage ; and half shut afterward.

What man, loue me, loue me dog.

Myth is the nothing that is everything.

Yes yes (quoth she) for all those wyse woordis vttred, I know on which syde my bread is buttred. But there will no butter cleaue on my breade. And on my bread any butter to be spreade. Euery promise that thou therin dost vtter, Is as sure …

Começo a conhecer-me. Não existo. Sou o intervalo entre o que desejo ser e os outros me fizeram.

Ye set circumquaques to make me beleue Or thinke, that the moone is made of gréene chéese.

It is better to be An olde mans derlyng, than a yong mans werlyng.

Set the cart before the hors.

There is no fyre without some smoke.

Many handis make light warke.

Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.

Marke ye, how she hitteth me on the thombis (quoth hée) And ye taunt me tyt ouer thumb (quoth shée) Sens tyt for tat (quoth I) on euen hand is set.

A penny for your thought.

A woman hath nyne lyues like a cat.

All thing is the woorse for the wearing.

A heare of the dog that bote vs last night.

Ka me, ka the, one good tourne askth an other.

Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe, With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?

Nought venter nought haue. spare to speake spare to spéede. Vnknowne vnkyst. it is loste that is vnsought. As good séeke nought (quoth I) as seeke and finde nought.

Throw no gyft agayne at the geuers head, For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.

Rome was not built in one daie (quoth he) and yet stood Till it was finist, as some say, full faire.