Search results for Early 1600s

Appearances can be deceiving.

Popular Culture (variously attributed, including Aesop's Fables)

All that glitters is not gold.

William Shakespeare

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

Better out than in.

Popular culture

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

To wear one's heart on one's sleeve.

William Shakespeare

I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

The calm before the storm.

Popular culture

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

John Muir

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich