| Quotes |
Topic |
| Proverbs | Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard. |
| Proverbs | Going as if he trod upon eggs. |
| Proverbs | Penny wise, pound foolish. |
| Proverbs | A man convinced against his will, Is of the some opinion still. |
| Proverbs | Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. |
| Proverbs | Great actions are not always true sons Of great and mighty resolutions. |
| Proverbs | I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower. |
| Religion | One religion is as true as another. |
| Rome | When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done. |
| Shame | A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better. |
| Shoemaking | Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself. |
| Silence | A quiet mind cureth all. |
| Swans | All our geese are swans. |
| Temptation | I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people, they go commonly together. |
| Water | The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill. |
| Weapons | A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. |
| Will | He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. |
| Wit | Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty. |
| Wonders | Wonders I sing, the sun has set, no night has followed. |
| Worship | Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place. |
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