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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Apophthegms (1624)
Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Apophthegms (1624)
My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
Apophthegms (1624)
Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
Apophthegms (1624)
Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.
Apophthegms (1624)
Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
Apophthegms (1624)
Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say. "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner."
Apophthegms (1624)
Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."
Apophthegms (1624)
Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone".
Apophthegms (1624)