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A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long.

Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.

Little pitchers have wide eares.

Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall.

To build castles in Spain.

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer: Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking; But if thou want it, buy it not too deare Many affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a deare fool for an houre.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance, Make not thy sport abuses: for the fly That feeds on dung is colored thereby.

Art thou a magistrate? then be severe: If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd, Redeem truth from his jaws: if a soldier, Chase brave employments with a naked sword Throughout the world. Fool not, for all may have If they dare try, a glorious life, or grave.

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

In doing we learn.

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.