A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "She never has.

Always ask yourself why God created me? If you know the answer, you are on the right path .

Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny.

The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

I do love you. I mean, love has nothing to do with this.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?