The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.
Read more
Search results for Historical period: Mid-20th century (around 1949)
623 allegories found
Page 17 of 63
-
-
There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
Read more
-
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
Read more
-
O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Read more
-
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
Read more
-
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
Read more
-
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
Read more
-
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
Read more
-
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Read more
-
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.
Read more