(23 quotes found)
“Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.”
Francis Beaumont
“As men / Do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, / After supper. 'Tis their exercise.”
“Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cinnamon and cloves, / And they gave me this jolly red nose.”
“Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.”
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.”
“Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.”
“Kiss till the cow comes home.”
“Mortality, behold and fear! / What a change of flesh is here!”
“Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.”
“Upon my buried body lie / Lightly, gentle earth.”
