Tag: King John

  • May 1

    May 1

    O, that my tongue were in the thunder’s mouth!
    Then with a passion would I shake the world.

  • April 15

    April 15

    Whiles I am a beggar, I will rail
    And say there is no sin but to be rich;
    And being rich, my virtue then shall be
    To say there is no vice but beggary.

  • March 17

    March 17

    To gild refinèd gold, to paint the lily,
    To throw a perfume on the violet,
    To smooth the ice, or add another hue
    Unto the rainbow…
    Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. 

  • February 4

    February 4

    And oftentimes excusing of a fault
    Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

  • January 2

    January 2

    Be great in act as you have been in thought.

  • November 1

    November 1

    When Fortune means to men most good,
    She looks upon them with a threat’ning eye.

  • October 8

    October 8

    Courage mounteth with occasion.