Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.