Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.
Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!
The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.
Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.
Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.
But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.