It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.