Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Comparisons are odious.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.

Gluttony kills more then the sword.

A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

February makes a bridge and March breakes it.

Better a bare foote then none.

A crooked log makes a strait fire

Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.

To a boyling pot flies comes not.

The offender never pardons.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

That is gold which is worth gold.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.