When Children Stand Quiet
When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.
When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.
Long visits bring short compliments.
Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
Kings have many ears and many eyes.
Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can.
Many lords, many laws.
Do no business with a kinsman.
Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.
A good lawyer, an evil neighbour.
Good men suffer much.
First try and then trust.
The ant had wings to her hurt.
A lean fee is a fit reward for a lazy clerk.
A surgeon experiments on the heads of orphans.
A heavy purse makes a light heart.
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
A penny-weight of love is worth a pound of law.
A crown is no cure for the headache.
Words and feathers the wind carries away.
A man’s studies pass into his character.