“Patience is a conquering virtue.”

Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.

Abstinence is approved of God.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.

With empty hands men may no hauks lure.

For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.

The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.

Men love newfangleness.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.

What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.

One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Time and tide wait for no man.

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

Perhaps the stars were once souls that conquered struggles and now they shine.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

He who conquers the mind, conquers the world.

Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.

The world is already yours – why try to conquer it?