An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
Andrew Marvell
Better than a play!
King of England ( Charles Stuart) Charles II
Every man loves what he is good at.
Thomas Shadwell
There is measure in all things.
Horace
Who will guard the guards themselves? (quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
Satires Juvenal
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Ovid
Nothing can be created from nothing.
Lucretius
Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.
Theocritus
Age steals away all things, even the mind.
Virgil
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
Giovanni Boccaccio
He was as fresh as is the month of May.
Geoffrey Chaucer
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander Pope
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
Henry Fielding
To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.
George Crabbe
The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this -- the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
Sir Walter Scott
I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
John Keats
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.
George Saintsbury
What if this present were the world's last night?
John Donne
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.