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“Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and
both cracked.”
Henry Fielding Quotes Source: Love in Several Masques (act V, sc. 13)
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“Get Estates may venture more. Little Boats must keep near Shore.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes Source: Poor Richard
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“He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds
his feet uncovered.
[Ger., Wer sich nicht nach der Decke streckt,
Dem bleiben die Fusse unbedeckt.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Spruche In Reimen (III)
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“Better is to bow than breake.”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
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“It is good the have a hatch before the durre.”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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“Yee have many strings to your bowe.”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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“So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath
two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for
future possibility or chance.”
Richard Hooker Quotes Source: Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (bk. V, ch. LXXX, no. 9)
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“He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has
hay on his horns, showing he is dangerous.)
[Lat., Faenum habet in cornu, longe fuge.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (I, IV, 34)
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“The first years of man must make provision for the last.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Rasselas (ch. XVII)
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“He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day.”
Old English Rhyme Quotes |
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“One can't get diseases
of Mad Chicken or Mad Pig
by eating tomatoes or
almonds or figs.”
O Anna Niemus Quotes |
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“Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes |
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“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.”
Henry Fielding Quotes |
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“There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.”
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
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