Quotemountain.com Famous Quotes It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
-- Sir Edmund Hillary

English 16th Century Quotes

The third time pays for all. -late 16th


Fortune favours fools. -mid 16th


If you want peace, you must prepare for war. -mid 16th


It is a poor dog that's not worth whistling for. -mid 16th


There's none so deaf as those who will not hear. -mid 16th


Do as I say, not as I do. -early 16th


The fish always stinks from the head downwards. -late 16th


Make hay while the sun shines. -mid 16th


The devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers. -late 16th


Man is the measure of all things. -mid 16th


A place for everything, and everything in its place. -mid 17th; often associated with Samuel Smiles and Mrs Beeton


There is nothing new under the sun. -late 16th


Never tell tales out of school. -early 16th


He that cannot obey cannot command. -early 16th


Pay beforehand was never well served. -late 16th