Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.
I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
They who lose today may win tomorrow.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
As ill-luck would have it.
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.