Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
GEORGE HERBERTThe first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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