Proverb Quotes

Politeness wins the confidence of princes.

If you bow at all, bow low.

If you have no money, be polite.

Politeness is what warmth is to wax.

Poets are born, not made.

The tongue of a poet is always the last to be corrupted.

Good poets are like angels of Heaven.

He falsifies who renders a verse just as it looks.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee; Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

He buys honey too dear that licks it from thorns.