The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.
The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Fair words never hurt the tongue.
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
Danger, the spur of all great minds.
Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?
Tis immortality to die aspiring.
Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.
Love is Natures second sun.
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
Fate's such a shrewish thing.
An ill weed grows apace.
There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.
They're only truly great who are truly good.
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.
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