Clergyman

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

I drink no more than a sponge.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

No clock is more regular than the belly.

The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.