Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
Aesop
Related:
- Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting.
Burmese... - Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious
is merely the shadow of a dream.
And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality... - Win or lose,
you lose... - Hasten to laugh at everything lest you be obliged
to weep... - Beware the one
behind you... - Beware the one
behind you... - St. Patrick was a gentleman
who through strategy and stealth
drove all the snakes from Ireland.
Here's a toasting to his health -- but not too many... - Envy will merit as its shade pursue,
But like a shadow proves the substance true.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism,... - Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be
spewed out.
Jewish...
