Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Men's vows are women's traitors

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark