He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Feast today makes fast tomorrow
Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.
Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough.