Tag: Histories

  • September 29

    September 29

    I think the King is but a man, as I am.
    The violet smells to him as it doth to me.

  • September 27

    September 27

    Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
    Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.

  • September 22

    September 22

    Where words are scarce,
    they are seldom spent in vain.

  • September 19

    September 19

    Thus we play the fools with the time,
    and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

  • September 9

    September 9

    And ’tis a kind of good deed to say well:
    And yet words are no deeds.

  • September 8

    September 8

    Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
    The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

  • September 6

    September 6

    For though the camomile,
    the more it is trodden on the faster it grows,
    yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.