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 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations



 The Song of the Harper
 c. 2650-2600  B.C.
 

 There is no one who can return from there, 1  2
 To describe their nature, to describe their dissolution,
 That he may still our desires,
 Until we reach the place where they have gone.

 The Song of the Harper
 St. 5

 1 See Catullus
 2 See Shakespeare




 Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him. 1  2  3  4
 No one goes away and then comes back.

 The Song of the Harper
 St. 10

 1 See Ecclesiastes 5:15
 2 See I Timothy 6:7
 3 See Theognis
 4 See Kaufman and Hart


 Ptahhotpe

 Twenty-fourth century  B.C.
 

    Teach him what has been said in the past; then he will set a good example
 to the children of the magistrates, and judgment and all exactitude shall
 enter into him. Speak to him, for there is none born wise.

 Ptahhotpe
 The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],introduction





    Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the
 ignorant man as with the learned. . . . Good speech is more hidden than
 malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the
 millstones.

 Ptahhotpe
 The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.1





    Truth is great and its effectiveness endures. 1

 Ptahhotpe
 The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.5

 1 See I Esdras 4:41




    Follow your desire as long as you live and do not perform more than is
 ordered; do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time
 is an abomination to the spirit. . . . When riches are gained, follow
 desire, for riches will not profit if one is sluggish.

 Ptahhotpe
 The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.11





    Beware an act of avarice; it is a bad and incurable disease.

 Ptahhotpe
 The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.19





    If you are well-to-do and can maintain your household, love your wife in
 your home according to good custom. . . . Make her happy while you are
 alive, for she is land profitable to her lord.

 Ptahhotpe
 The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.21





    Do not repeat slander; you should not hear it, for it is the result of
 hot temper.

 Ptahhotpe
 The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.23





    One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is
 frivolous all day will never establish a household. 1  2  3

 Ptahhotpe
 The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.25

 1 See Herodotus
 2 See Cervantes
 3 See Howell




    Be cheerful while you are alive.

 Ptahhotpe
 The Maxims of Ptahhotpe [c. 2350 b.c.],maxim no.34



 The Teaching for Merikare
 c. 2135-2040  B.C.
 

    Be skillful in speech, that you may be strong; [ . . . ] it is the
 strength of [ . . . ] the tongue, and words are braver than all fighting 1
 2  3  . . . a wise man is a school for the magnates, and those who are aware
 of his knowledge do not attack him.

 The Teaching for Merikare
 Par. 4

 1 See Cervantes
 2 See Burton
 3 See BulwerLytton




    Copy your forefathers, 1  for work is carried out through knowledge; see,
 their words endure in writing. . . . Do not be evil, for pa-tience is good;
 make your lasting monument in the love of you.

 The Teaching for Merikare
 Par. 5

 1 See Tacitus




    Wretched is he who has bound the land to himself [ . . . ]; a fool is he
 who is greedy when others possess. Life on earth passes away, it is not
 long; 1  2  3  he is fortunate who has a good remembrance in it.

 The Teaching for Merikare
 Par. 6

 1 See Homer
 2 See Pindar
 3 See Aristophanes




    Do justice, that you may live long upon earth. Calm the weeper, do not
 oppress the widow, do not oust a man from his father's property, do not
 degrade magnates from their seats. Beware of punishing wrongfully; do not
 kill, for it will not profit you.

 The Teaching for Merikare
 Par. 8





    More acceptable is the character of the straightforward man than the ox
 of the wrongdoer. Serve God, that He may do the like for you . . . Provide
 for men, the cattle of God, for He made heaven and earth 1  at their desire.
 He suppressed the greed of the waters, He gave the breath of life to their
 noses, for they are likenesses of Him which issued from His flesh. 2

 The Teaching for Merikare
 Par. 22

 1 See Psalm 121:2
 2 See Genesis 1:26




    Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what
 is remembered.

 The Teaching for Merikare
 Par. 24



 The Man Who Was Tired of Life
 c. 1990  B.C.
 

 To whom can I speak today?
 Brothers are evil
 And the friends of today unlovable.

 The Man Who Was Tired of Life
 Song,st. 9





 To whom can I speak today?
 Gentleness has perished
 And the violent man has come down on everyone.

 The Man Who Was Tired of Life
 Song,st. 11





 To whom can I speak today?
 I am heavy-laden with trouble
 Through lack of an intimate friend.To whom can I speak today?
 The wrong which roams the earth,
 There is no end to it.

 The Man Who Was Tired of Life
 Song,st. 23, 24





 Death is in my sight today
 As when a man desires to see home
 When he has spent many years in captivity.

 The Man Who Was Tired of Life
 Song,st. 30



 The Book of the Dead
 c. 1700-1000  B.C.
 

 Hail to you gods . . .
 On that day of the great reckoning.
 Behold me, I have come to you,
 Without sin, without guilt, without evil,
 Without a witness against me,
 Without one whom I have wronged. . . .
 Rescue me, protect me,
 Do not accuse me before the great god!I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.

 The Book of the Dead
 The Address to the Gods



 Love Songs of the New Kingdom
 c. 1550-1080  B.C.
 

 My love for you is mixed throughout my body . . . So hurry to see your lady,
 like a stallion on the track,
 or like a falcon swooping down to its papyrus marsh.Heaven sends down the
 love of her
 as a flame falls in the hay.

 Love Songs of the New Kingdom
 Song no.2





 The voice of the wild goose,
 caught by the bait, cries out.
 Love of you holds me back,
 and I can't loosen it at all. . . . I did not set my traps today;
 love of you has thus entrapped me.

 Love Songs of the New Kingdom
 Song no.10





 Now must I depart from the brother . . .
 and as I long for your love,
 my heart stands still inside me. . . . Sweet pomegranate wine in my mouth
 is bitter as the gall of birds.But your embraces
 alone give life to my heart;
 may Amun give me what I have found
 for all eternity.

 Love Songs of the New Kingdom
 Song no.12





 The voice of the turtledove speaks out. 1  It says:
 Day breaks, which way are you going?
 Lay off, little bird,
 must you so scold me?I found my lover on his bed,
 and my heart was sweet to excess.

 Love Songs of the New Kingdom
 Song no.14

 1 See Song of Solomon 2:12


 Queen Hatshepsut

  d. 1468  B.C.
 

 So as regards these two great obelisks,
 Wrought with electrum by my majesty for my father Amun,
 In order that my name may endure in this temple,
 For eternity and everlastingness,
 They are each of one block of hard granite,
 Without seam, without joining together!

 Queen Hatshepsut
 Speech of the Queen



 Suti and Hor
 Fifteenth-fourteenth centuries  B.C.
 

 Creator uncreated.
 Sole one, unique one, who traverses eternity,
 Remote one, with millions under his care;
 Your splendor is like heaven's splendor.

 Suti and Hor
 First Hymn to the Sun God





 Beneficent mother 1  2  3  of gods and men . . .
 Valiant shepherd who drives his flock,
 Their refuge, made to sustain them. . . .
 He makes the seasons with the months,
 Heat as he wishes, cold as he wishes. . . .
 Every land rejoices at his rising,
 Every day gives praise to him.

 Suti and Hor
 Second Hymn to the Sun God

 1 See Eddy
 2 See O'Neill
 3 See John Paul I


 The Great Hymn to the Aten
 c. 1350  B.C.
 

 Splendid you rise in heaven's lightland,
 O living Aten, creator of life!

 The Great Hymn to the Aten
 St. 1





 When you set in western lightland,
 Earth is in darkness as if in death.

 The Great Hymn to the Aten
 St. 2





 Every lion comes from its den,
 All the serpents bite;
 Darkness hovers, earth is silent,
 As their maker rests in lightland. 1 Earth brightens when you dawn in
 lightland,
 When you shine as Aten of daytime;
 As you dispel the dark,
 As you cast your rays,
 The Two Lands are in festivity.
 Awake they stand on their feet,
 You have roused them. 2

 The Great Hymn to the Aten
 St. 2, 3

 1 See Psalm 104:21
 2 See Psalm 104:22, 23




 The entire land sets out to work,
 All beasts browse on their herbs;
 Trees, herbs are sprouting,
 Birds fly from their nests . . .
 Ships fare north, fare south as well,
 Roads lie open when you rise;
 The fish in the river dart before you,
 Your rays are in the midst of the sea. 1

 The Great Hymn to the Aten
 St. 3

 1 See Psalm 104:22, 23




 How many are your deeds,
 Though hidden from sight,
 O Sole God beside whom there is none!
 You made the earth as you wished, you alone. 1

 The Great Hymn to the Aten
 St. 5

 1 See Psalm 104:24


 I Ching
 c. Twelfth century  B.C.
 

    Fire in the lake: the image of revolution.

 I Ching, The Book of Changes
 Book I, ch.49, Ko/Revolution (Molting)





    Wind over lake: the image of inner truth.

 I Ching, The Book of Changes
 Book I, ch.61, Chung Fu/Inner Truth



 Amenemope

 c. Eleventh century  B.C.


 Beginning of the teaching for life,
 The instructions for well-being . . .
 Knowing how to answer one who speaks,
 To reply to one who sends a message. 1

 Amenemope
 The Instruction of Amenemopeprologue

 1 See Proverbs 22:20-1




 Give your ears, hear the sayings,
 Give your heart to understand them;
 It profits to put them in your heart. 1

 Amenemope
 The Instruction of Amenemopech.1

 1 See Proverbs 22:17-8




 Beware of robbing a wretch,
 Of attacking a cripple. 1  2

 Amenemope
 The Instruction of Amenemopech.2

 1 See Proverbs 22:22
 2 See Ecclesiasticus 4:1




 The truly silent, who keep apart,
 He is like a tree grown in a meadow.
 It greens, it doubles its yield,
 It stands in front of its lord.
 Its fruit is sweet, its shade delightful,
 Its end comes in the garden. 1  2

 Amenemope
 The Instruction of Amenemopech.4

 1 See Psalm 1:1-
 2 See Jeremiah 17:8




 Do not move the markers on the border of the fields. 1

 Amenemope
 The Instruction of Amenemopech.6

 1 See Proverbs 22:28




 Better is poverty in the hand of the god,
 Than wealth in the storehouse;
 Better is bread with a happy heart
 Than wealth with vexation. 1  2

 Amenemope
 The Instruction of Amenemopech.6

 1 See Proverbs 15:16-7
 2 See Confucius




 Do not set your heart on wealth . . .
 Do not strain to seek increases,
 What you have, let it suffice you. 1
 If riches come to you by theft,
 They will not stay the night with you. . . .
 They made themselves wings like geese,
 And flew away to the sky. 2

 Amenemope
 The Instruction of Amenemopech.7

 1 See Proverbs 23:4
 2 See Proverbs 23:5




 Look to these thirty chapters,
 They inform, they educate. 1

 Amenemope
 The Instruction of Amenemopech.30

 1 See Proverbs 22:20




 The scribe who is skilled in his office,
 He is found worthy to be a courtier. 1

 Amenemope
 The Instruction of Amenemopech.30

 1 See Proverbs 22:29


 The Holy Bible

    In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of
 the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-3





    And the evening and the morning were the first day.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 5





    And God saw that it was good.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 10





    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 26

 1 See The Teaching for Merikare




    Male and female created he them.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 27





    Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and
 have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
 over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 28





    And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 2





    And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into
 his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 7





    And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 8





    The tree of life also in the midst of the garden.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 9





    But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of
 it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 17





    It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet
 for him.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 18





    And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and
 he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.
 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 21-22





    Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 23





    Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave
 unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 24-25





    Now the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 1





    Your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and
 evil.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 5





    And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool
 of the day.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 7-8





    The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I
 did eat.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 12





    What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent
 beguiled me, and I did eat.
 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou
 art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy
 belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 13-14





    And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed
 and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 15





    In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 16





    In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the
 ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust
 shalt thou return.
 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all
 living.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 19-20





    So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden
 cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of
 the tree of life.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 24





    And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 2





    Am I my brother's keeper?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 9





    The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 10





    A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 12





    My punishment is greater than I can bear.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 13





    And the Lord set a mark upon Cain.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 15





    And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of
 Nod.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 16





    Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 20





    Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 21





    Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 22





    And Enoch walked with God.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 5, Verse 24





    And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 5, Verse 27





    And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 5, Verse 32





    There were giants in the earth in those days . . . mighty men which were
 of old, men of renown.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 6, Verse 4





    Make thee an ark of gopher wood.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 6, Verse 14





    And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou
 bring into the ark.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 6, Verse 19





    And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 7, Verse 12





    But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 9





    And, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 11





    For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 21





    While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and
 summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 22





    Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the
 image of God made he man.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 9, Verse 6





    I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant
 between me and the earth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 9, Verse 13





    Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 10, Verse 9





    Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there
 confound the language of all the earth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 11, Verse 9





    Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee . . . for we be
 brethren.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 13, Verse 8





    Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the
 plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 13, Verse 12





    In a good old age.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 15, Verse 15





    His [Ishmael's] hand will be against every man, and every man's hand
 against him.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 16, Verse 12





    Thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 17, Verse 5





    My Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray
 thee, from thy servant.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 18, Verse 3





    But his [Lot's] wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar
 of salt.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 19, Verse 26





    My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 22, Verse 8





    Behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 22, Verse 13





    Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man,
 dwelling in tents.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 25, Verse 27





    And he [Esau] sold his birthright unto Jacob.
 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 25, Verse 33-34





    The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 27, Verse 22





    Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 27, Verse 35





    He [Jacob] dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top
 of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and
 descending on it.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 28, Verse 12





    Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 28, Verse 16





    This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 28, Verse 17





    Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few
 days, for the love he had to her.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 29, Verse 20





    And Laban said, This heap [of stones] is a witness between me and thee
 this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
 And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are
 absent one from another.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 31, Verse 48-49





    And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the
 breaking of the day.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 32, Verse 24





    I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 32, Verse 26





    And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face
 to face, and my life is preserved. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 32, Verse 30

 1 See I Corinthians 13:12




    Behold, this dreamer cometh.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 37, Verse 19





    They stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colors.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 37, Verse 23





    The Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 39, Verse 3





    And she [Potiphar's wife] caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me:
 and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 39, Verse 12





    The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven
 years: the dream is one.
 And the seven thin and ill-favored kine that came up after them are seven
 years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven
 years of famine.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 41, Verse 26-27





    Then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 42, Verse 38





    But Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 43, Verse 34





    Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 44, Verse 4





    God forbid.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 44, Verse 7





    The man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 44, Verse 17





    And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept
 upon his neck.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 45, Verse 14





    And ye shall eat the fat of the land.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 45, Verse 18





    And they came into the land of Goshen.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 46, Verse 28





    But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and
 bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 47, Verse 30





    Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 49, Verse 4





    I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 49, Verse 18





    Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis Chapter 49, Verse 26





    Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 1, Verse 8





    She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with
 pitch.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 2, Verse 3





    I have been a stranger in a strange land. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 2, Verse 22

 1 See Sophocles




    Behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 3, Verse 2





    Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest
 is holy ground.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 3, Verse 5





    And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 3, Verse 6





    A land flowing with milk and honey.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 3, Verse 8





    And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 3, Verse 14





    I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 4, Verse 10





    Let my people go.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 5, Verse 1





    Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 5, Verse 7





    Thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and
 it shall become a serpent.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 7, Verse 9





    They [Pharaoh's wise men] cast down every man his rod, and they became
 serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
 And he hardened Pharaoh's heart.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 7, Verse 12-13





    This is the finger of God.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 8, Verse 19





    Darkness which may be felt.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 10, Verse 21





    Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 11, Verse 1





    Your lamb shall be without blemish.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 12, Verse 5





    And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and
 unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 12, Verse 8





    And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your
 feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the
 Lord's passover.
 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the
 firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods
 of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 12, Verse 11-12





    This day [Passover] shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep
 it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 12, Verse 14

 1 See I Corinthians 5:7




    Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 12, Verse 15





    There was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was
 not one dead.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 12, Verse 30





    Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of
 bondage.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 13, Verse 3





    And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them
 the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 13, Verse 21





    And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry
 ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on
 their left.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 14, Verse 22





    I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse
 and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
 The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 15, Verse 1-2





    The Lord is a man of war.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 15, Verse 3





    Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O
 Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 15, Verse 6





    Thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the
 floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart
 of the sea.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 15, Verse 7-8





    Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt,
 when we sat by the fleshpots, and when we did eat bread to the full.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 16, Verse 3





    It is manna.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 16, Verse 15





    I am the Lord thy God.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 20, Verse 2





    Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 20, Verse 3-4





    For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
 fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that
 hate me; 1
 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my
 commandments.
 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 20, Verse 5-7

 1 See Euripides




    Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
 But the seventh day . . . thou shalt not do any work.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 20, Verse 8-10





    Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land
 which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 1
 Thou shalt not kill.
 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
 Thou shalt not steal.
 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy
 neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor
 his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 20, Verse 12-17

 1 See Aeschylus




    But let not God speak with us, lest we die.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 20, Verse 19





    He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 21, Verse 12





    Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 21, Verse 24





    Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 23, Verse 20





    A stiffnecked people.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 32, Verse 9





    Who is on the Lord's side? let him come unto me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 32, Verse 26





    Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 33, Verse 20





    And he [Moses] was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he
 did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the
 words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus Chapter 34, Verse 28





    Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud,
 among the beasts, that shall ye eat.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus Chapter 11, Verse 3





    And the swine . . . is unclean to you.
 Of their flesh shall ye not eat.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus Chapter 11, Verse 7-8





    Let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus Chapter 16, Verse 10





    And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the
 corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy
 harvest.
 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape
 of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus Chapter 19, Verse 9-10





    Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus Chapter 19, Verse 16





    Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus Chapter 19, Verse 18





    Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all
 the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus Chapter 25, Verse 10





    The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:
 The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
 The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 6, Verse 24-26





    Sent to spy out the land.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 13, Verse 16





    And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 14, Verse 33





    Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and
 the water came out abundantly.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 20, Verse 11





    He whom thou blessest is blessed.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 22, Verse 6





    The Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have
 I done unto thee?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 22, Verse 28





    Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 23, Verse 10





    God is not a man, that he should lie. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 23, Verse 19

 1 See Aeschylus




    What hath God wrought!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 23, Verse 23





    How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 24, Verse 5





    Be sure your sin will find you out.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers Chapter 32, Verse 23





    I call heaven and earth to witness.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 4, Verse 26





    Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy
 soul, and with all thy might. 1
 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 6, Verse 5-7

 1 See Matthew 22:37




    Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 6, Verse 16





    The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 7, Verse 6





    Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of
 the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 8, Verse 3





    For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 8, Verse 7





    A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates;
 a land of oil olive, and honey;
 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack
 any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou
 mayest dig brass.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 8, Verse 8-9





    A dreamer of dreams.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 13, Verse 1





    The wife of thy bosom.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 13, Verse 6





    The poor shall never cease out of the land. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 15, Verse 11

 1 See Matthew 26:11




    Thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbor's standing corn.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 23, Verse 25





    And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all
 nations.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 28, Verse 37





    In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou
 shalt say, Would God it were morning!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 28, Verse 67





    The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 29, Verse 29





    I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore
 choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 30, Verse 19





    He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God
 of truth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 32, Verse 4





    Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 32, Verse 15





    As thy days, so shall thy strength be.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 33, Verse 25





    The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 33, Verse 27





    No man knoweth of his [Moses'] sepulcher unto this day.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy Chapter 34, Verse 6





    Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed:
 for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Joshua Chapter 1, Verse 9





    And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm
 on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on
 dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Joshua Chapter 3, Verse 17





    Mighty men of valor.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Joshua Chapter 6, Verse 2





    And it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and
 the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that
 the people went up into the city [Jericho].

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Joshua Chapter 6, Verse 20





    His fame was noised throughout all the country.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Joshua Chapter 6, Verse 27





    Hewers of wood and drawers of water.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Joshua Chapter 9, Verse 21





    Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of
 Ajalon.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Joshua Chapter 10, Verse 12





    Old and stricken in years.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Joshua Chapter 13, Verse 1





    I am going the way of all the earth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Joshua Chapter 23, Verse 14





    They shall be as thorns in your sides. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 2, Verse 3

 1 See II Corinthians 12:7




    Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in
 her hand, and went softly unto him [Sisera], and smote the nail into his
 temples, and fastened it into the ground; for he was fast asleep, and weary:
 so he died.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 4, Verse 21





    I Deborah arose . . . I arose a mother in Israel.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 5, Verse 7





    Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead
 thy captivity captive.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 5, Verse 12





    The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 5, Verse 20





    She [Jael] brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 5, Verse 25





    At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he
 fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 5, Verse 27





    The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the
 lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his
 chariots?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 5, Verse 28





    Have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 5, Verse 30





    The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 7, Verse 18





    Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of
 Abiezer?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 8, Verse 2





    Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to
 pronounce it right.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 12, Verse 6





    There was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 14, Verse 8





    Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth
 sweetness.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 14, Verse 14





    If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 14, Verse 18





    He smote them hip and thigh.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 15, Verse 8





    With the jawbone of an ass . . . have I slain a thousand men.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 15, Verse 16





    The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 16, Verse 9





    The Philistines took him [Samson], and put out his eyes, and brought him
 down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the
 prison house.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 16, Verse 21





    Strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be . . .
 avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 16, Verse 28





    So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew
 in his life.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 16, Verse 30





    From Dan even to Beersheba.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 20, Verse 1





    All the people arose as one man.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 20, Verse 8





    In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was
 right in his own eyes.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Judges Chapter 21, Verse 25





    Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy
 people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Ruth Chapter 1, Verse 16





    Let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Ruth Chapter 2, Verse 7





    Go not empty unto thy mother in law.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Ruth Chapter 3, Verse 17





    In the flower of their age.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 2, Verse 33





    The Lord called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 3, Verse 4





    Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 3, Verse 9





    Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 4, Verse 9

 1 See I Corinthians 16:13




    And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from
 Israel: because the ark of God was taken.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 4, Verse 21





    Is Saul also among the prophets?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 10, Verse 11





    God save the king.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 10, Verse 24





    A man after his own heart.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 13, Verse 14





    Every man's sword was against his fellow.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 14, Verse 20





    But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath:
 wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped
 it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were
 enlightened.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 14, Verse 27





    For the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward
 appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 16, Verse 7





    I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 28





    Let no man's heart fail because of him [Goliath].

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 32





    Go, and the Lord be with thee.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 37





    And he [David] . . . chose him five smooth stones out of the brook.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 40





    So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 50





    Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 18, Verse 7





    And Jonathan . . . loved him [David] as he loved his own soul.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 20, Verse 17





    Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 24, Verse 13





    I have played the fool.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of Samuel Chapter 26, Verse 21





    Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 1, Verse 20





    Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their
 death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were
 stronger than lions.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 1, Verse 23





    How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 1, Verse 25





    Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 1, Verse 26-27





    Abner . . . smote him under the fifth rib.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 2, Verse 23





    Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man [Abner] fallen this
 day in Israel?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 3, Verse 38





    And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all
 manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries,
 and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 6, Verse 5

 1 See Psalm 150:3-




    Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it . . . and
 the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 6, Verse 6





    David danced before the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 6, Verse 14





    Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 10, Verse 5





    Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 11, Verse 15





    The poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 12, Verse 3





    Thou art the man.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 12, Verse 7





    Now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I
 shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 12, Verse 23





    For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot
 be gathered up again.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 14, Verse 14





    Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 18, Verse 33





    The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 22, Verse 2





    David the son of Jesse . . . the sweet psalmist of Israel.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 23, Verse 1





    Went in jeopardy of their lives.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of Samuel Chapter 23, Verse 17





    A wise and an understanding heart.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 3, Verse 12





    Many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 4, Verse 20





    Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig
 tree.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 4, Verse 25





    He [Solomon] spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand
 and five.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 4, Verse 32





    The wisdom of Solomon.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 4, Verse 34





    So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in
 the house, while it was in building.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 6, Verse 7





    A proverb and a byword among all people.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 9, Verse 7





    When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon . . . she came to
 prove him with hard questions.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 10, Verse 1





    The half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame
 which I heard.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 10, Verse 7





    Once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and
 silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 10, Verse 22





    King Solomon loved many strange women.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 11, Verse 1





    My father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with
 scorpions.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 12, Verse 11





    To your tents, O Israel.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 12, Verse 16





    He [Elijah] went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 17, Verse 5





    And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and
 flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 17, Verse 6





    An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 17, Verse 12





    And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 17, Verse 16





    How long halt ye between two opinions?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 18, Verse 21





    Either he [Baal] is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or
 peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 18, Verse 27





    There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 18, Verse 44





    And he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 18, Verse 46





    But the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but
 the Lord was not in the earthquake:
 And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after
 the fire a still small voice.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 19, Verse 11-12





    Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth
 it off.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 20, Verse 11





    Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 21, Verse 20





    The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 21, Verse 23





    But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work
 wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 21, Verse 25





    I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a
 shepherd.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 22, Verse 17





    Feed him [Micajah] with bread of affliction, and with water of
 affliction, until I come in peace.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Kings Chapter 22, Verse 27





    There appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them
 both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 2, Verse 11





    The chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 2, Verse 12





    He [Elisha] took up also the mantle of Elijah.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 2, Verse 13





    There is death in the pot.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 4, Verse 40





    Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 8, Verse 13





    What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 9, Verse 18





    The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth
 furiously.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 9, Verse 20





    Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and
 looked out at a window.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 9, Verse 30





    The angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an
 hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the
 morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 19, Verse 35-36





    Set thine house in order.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 20, Verse 1





    I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it
 upside down.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Second Book of the Kings Chapter 21, Verse 13





    His mercy endureth for ever.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Chronicles Chapter 16, Verse 41





    The Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of
 the thoughts.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Chronicles Chapter 28, Verse 9





    Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the
 victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is
 thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Chronicles Chapter 29, Verse 11

 1 See Matthew 6:13




    For all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Chronicles Chapter 29, Verse 14

 1 See Marcus Aurelius




    Our days on the earth are as a shadow.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Chronicles Chapter 29, Verse 15





    He [David] died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The First Book of the Chronicles Chapter 29, Verse 28





    They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those
 that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with
 the other hand held a weapon.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Nehemiah Chapter 4, Verse 17





    And he [Ezra] read therein before the street that was before the water
 gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those
 that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto
 the book of the law.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Nehemiah Chapter 8, Verse 3





    Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and
 of great kindness.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Nehemiah Chapter 9, Verse 17





    Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Esther Chapter 4, Verse 1





    The man whom the king delighteth to honor.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Esther Chapter 6, Verse 6





    They hanged Haman on the gallows.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Esther Chapter 7, Verse 10





    One that feared God, and eschewed evil.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 1, Verse 1





    Satan came also.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 1, Verse 6





    And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the
 Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and
 down in it.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 1, Verse 7





    Doth Job fear God for nought?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 1, Verse 9





    Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: 1
 the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the
 Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 1, Verse 21

 1 See Ecclesiastes 5:15




    Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 2, Verse 4





    Curse God, and die.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 2, Verse 9





    Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was
 said, There is a man child conceived. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 3, Verse 3

 1 See Euripides




    For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept:
 then had I been at rest,
 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for
 themselves.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 3, Verse 13-14





    There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 3, Verse 17





    Who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 4, Verse 7





    Fear came upon me, and trembling.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 4, Verse 14





    Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 4, Verse 15





    Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his
 maker?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 4, Verse 17





    Wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 5, Verse 2





    Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 5, Verse 7





    He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 5, Verse 13





    For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts
 of the field shall be at peace with thee.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 5, Verse 23





    Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn
 cometh in in his season.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 5, Verse 26





    How forcible are right words!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 6, Verse 25





    My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 7, Verse 6





    He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him
 any more.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 7, Verse 10





    I would not live alway: let me alone: for my days are vanity.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 7, Verse 16





    But how should man be just with God?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 9, Verse 2





    The land of darkness and the shadow of death.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 10, Verse 21





    Canst thou by searching find out God?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 11, Verse 7





    And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 11, Verse 17





    No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 12, Verse 2





    The just upright man is laughed to scorn.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 12, Verse 4





    But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the
 air, and they shall tell thee:
 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea
 shall declare unto thee.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 12, Verse 7-8





    With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 12, Verse 12





    He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the
 shadow of death.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 12, Verse 22





    Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 13, Verse 15





    Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow,
 and continueth not.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 14, Verse 1-2





    But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where
 is he?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 14, Verse 10





    If a man die, shall he live again?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 14, Verse 14





    Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east
 wind?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 15, Verse 2





    Miserable comforters are ye all.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 16, Verse 2





    My days are past.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 17, Verse 11





    I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my
 mother, and my sister.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 17, Verse 14





    The king of terrors.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 18, Verse 14





    I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 19, Verse 20





    Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 19, Verse 23





    I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day
 upon the earth:
 And though, after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I
 see God.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 19, Verse 25-26





    Seeing the root of the matter is found in me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 19, Verse 28





    Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his
 tongue.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 20, Verse 12





    Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 21, Verse 3





    Shall any teach God knowledge?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 21, Verse 22





    They are of those that rebel against the light.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 24, Verse 13





    The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall
 be no more remembered.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 24, Verse 20





    Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 25, Verse 5-6





    But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 28, Verse 12





    The land of the living.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 28, Verse 13





    The price of wisdom is above rubies.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 28, Verse 18





    Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is
 understanding.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 28, Verse 28





    I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 29, Verse 13





    I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 29, Verse 15





    I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for
 all living.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 30, Verse 23





    I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 30, Verse 29





    My desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary
 had written a book.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 31, Verse 35





    Great men are not always wise.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 32, Verse 9





    For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 32, Verse 18





    One among a thousand.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 33, Verse 23





    Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 34, Verse 10





    He multiplieth words without knowledge.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 35, Verse 16





    Fair weather cometh out of the north.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 37, Verse 22





    Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
 Gird up now thy loins like a man.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 1-3





    Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if
 thou hast understanding.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 4





    The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 7





    Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves
 be stayed.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 11





    Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the
 search of the depth?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 16





    Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 28





    Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of
 Orion?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 31





    Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 32





    Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of
 heaven.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 38, Verse 37





    Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with
 thunder?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 39, Verse 19





    He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to
 meet the armed men.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 39, Verse 21





    He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage; neither believeth he
 that it is the sound of the trumpet.
 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off,
 the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 39, Verse 24-25





    Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the
 strong place.
 From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 39, Verse 27-30





    Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 40, Verse 4





    Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 40, Verse 15





    Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 41, Verse 1





    Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 41, Verse 14-15





    His heart is as firm as a stone; yea as hard as a piece of the nether
 millstone.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 41, Verse 24





    He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 41, Verse 31





    Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 41, Verse 33





    He is a king over all the children of pride.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 41, Verse 34





    I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth
 thee.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 42, Verse 5





    So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Job Chapter 42, Verse 12





    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor
 standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate
 day and night.
 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth
 forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and
 whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 1, Verse 1-4





    Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 2, Verse 1





    Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 2, Verse 12





    Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 4, Verse 6





    I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 4, Verse 8





    Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength,
 because of thine enemies; that thou mightest still the enemy and the
 avenger.
 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the
 stars, which thou hast ordained;
 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou
 visitest him?
 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 8, Verse 2-5





    How excellent is thy name in all the earth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 8, Verse 9





    Flee as a bird to your mountain.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 11, Verse 1





    How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 13, Verse 1





    The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 14, Verse 1 Chapter 53, Verse 1





    Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy
 hill?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 15, Verse 1





    He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 15, Verse 4





    The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly
 heritage.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 16, Verse 6





    Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 17, Verse 8





    He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the
 wind.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 18, Verse 10





    The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his
 handiwork.
 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 19, Verse 1-2





    Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end
 of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a
 strong man to run a race.
 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends
 of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 19, Verse 4-6





    The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter
 also than honey and the honeycomb.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 19, Verse 9-10





    Cleanse thou me from secret faults.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 19, Verse 12





    Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable
 in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 19, Verse 14





    Thou hast given him his heart's desire.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 21, Verse 2





    My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from
 helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 22, Verse 1





    They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 22, Verse 18





    The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still
 waters.
 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his
 name's sake.
 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no
 evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou
 anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I
 will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 23, Verse 1





    The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they
 that dwell therein. 1
 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy
 place?
 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul
 unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 24, Verse 1-4

 1 See I Corinthians 10:26




    Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors;
 and the King of glory shall come in.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 24, Verse 7





    Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 24, Verse 10





    The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the
 strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 27, Verse 1





    Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though
 war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 27, Verse 3





    The Lord is my strength and my shield.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 28, Verse 7





    Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 29, Verse 2





    Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 30, Verse 5





    I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 31, Verse 12





    My times are in thy hand.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 31, Verse 15





    From the strife of tongues.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 31, Verse 20





    Sing unto him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 33, Verse 3





    O taste and see that the Lord is good.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 34, Verse 8





    Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 34, Verse 13-14





    Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 35, Verse 17





    How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 36, Verse 7





    The meek shall inherit the earth. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 37, Verse 11

 1 See Matthew 5:5




    I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous
 forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 37, Verse 25





    I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green
 bay tree.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 37, Verse 35





    Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is
 peace.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 37, Verse 37





    For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 38, Verse 2





    I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 39, Verse 1





    My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 39, Verse 3





    Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is;
 that I may know how frail I am.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 39, Verse 4





    Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 39, Verse 5





    Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in
 vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 39, Verse 6





    For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 39, Verse 12-13





    As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after
 thee, O God.
 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 42, Verse 1-2





    Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 42, Verse 5





    Deep calleth unto deep.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 42, Verse 7





    My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 45, Verse 1





    The king's daughter is all glorious within.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 45, Verse 13





    God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
 Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the
 mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 46, Verse 1-2





    There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God,
 the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and
 that right early.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 46, Verse 4-5





    Be still, and know that I am God.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 46, Verse 10





    Every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 50, Verse 10





    I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 51, Verse 5





    Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be
 whiter than snow.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 51, Verse 7





    Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 51, Verse 10





    And take not thy holy spirit from me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 51, Verse 11





    Open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 51, Verse 15





    A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 51, Verse 17





    Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at
 rest. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 55, Verse 6

 1 See Euripides




    We took sweet counsel together.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 55, Verse 14





    The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his
 heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 55, Verse 21





    They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 58, Verse 4-5





    Thou hast showed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the
 wine of astonishment.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 60, Verse 3





    Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph
 thou because of me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 60, Verse 8





    Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 61, Verse 2





    He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be
 moved.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 62, Verse 6





    Thou renderest to every man according to his work.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 62, Verse 12





    My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
 thirsty land, where no water is.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 63, Verse 1





    Thou crownest the year with thy goodness.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 65, Verse 11





    Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 66, Verse 1





    We went through fire and through water.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 66, Verse 12





    God setteth the solitary in families.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 68, Verse 6





    Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength
 faileth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 71, Verse 9





    He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water
 the earth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 72, Verse 6





    His enemies shall lick the dust.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 72, Verse 9





    His name shall endure for ever.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 72, Verse 17





    A stubborn and rebellious generation.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 78, Verse 8





    Man did eat angels' food.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 78, Verse 25





    But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 82, Verse 7





    How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 84, Verse 1





    They go from strength to strength.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 84, Verse 7





    A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a
 doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 84, Verse 10





    Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed
 each other.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 85, Verse 10





    Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 88, Verse 14





    Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth
 and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and
 as a watch in the night.
 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning
 they are like grass which groweth up.
 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut
 down, and withereth. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 90, Verse 1-6

 1 See Isaiah 40:6 and 40:8
 2 See I Peter 1:24




    We spend our years as a tale that is told.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 90, Verse 9





    The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of
 strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow;
 for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 90, Verse 10





    So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 90, Verse 12





    Establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands
 establish thou it.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 90, Verse 17





    He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under
 the shadow of the Almighty.
 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will
 I trust.
 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the
 noisome pestilence.
 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust:
 his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that
 flieth by day.
 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction
 that wasteth at noonday.
 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but
 it shall not come nigh thee.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 91, Verse 1-7





    He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a
 stone.
 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon
 shalt thou trample under feet.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 91, Verse 11-13





    The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a
 cedar in Lebanon.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 92, Verse 12





    Mightier than the noise of many waters. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 93, Verse 4

 1 See Revelation 14:2




    O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock
 of our salvation.
 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise
 unto him with psalms.
 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is
 his also.
 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.
 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of
 his hand. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 95, Verse 1-7

 1 See Ephesians 5:19
 2 See Book of Common Prayer, Morning Prayer (Venite)




    O sing unto the Lord a new song.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 96, Verse 1





    The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 97, Verse 1





    Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we
 ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be
 thankful unto him, and bless his name.
 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to
 all generations.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 100, Verse 1





    My days are consumed like smoke.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 102, Verse 3





    I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 102, Verse 7





    As the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them
 that fear him.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 103, Verse 11





    As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he
 flourisheth.
 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall
 know it no more. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 103, Verse 15-16

 1 See Homer




    Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds
 his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 104, Verse 3





    Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 104, Verse 15





    The cedars of Lebanon.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 104, Verse 16





    He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest
 do creep forth. 1
 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. 2
 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their
 dens.
 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening. 3
 O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the
 earth is full of thy riches. 4
 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both
 small and great beasts.
 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play
 therein.
 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due
 season.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 104, Verse 19-27

 1 See The Great Hymn to the Aten
 2 See The Great Hymn to the Aten
 3 See The Great Hymn to the Aten
 4 See The Great Hymn to the Aten




    The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the
 bread of heaven. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 105, Verse 40

 1 See John 6:35




    Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 107, Verse 10

 1 See Matthew 4:16
 2 See Luke 1:79




    They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 107, Verse 23





    They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 107, Verse 26





    They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their
 wit's end.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 107, Verse 27





    For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the
 locust.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 109, Verse 22-23





    Thou hast the dew of thy youth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 110, Verse 3





    The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 111, Verse 10





    From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's
 name is to be praised.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 113, Verse 3





    The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 114, Verse 4





    They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not.
 They have ears, but they hear not.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 115, Verse 5-6





    I said in my haste, All men are liars.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 116, Verse 11





    Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 116, Verse 15





    The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the
 corner.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 118, Verse 22





    This is the day which the Lord hath made.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 118, Verse 24





    Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 118, Verse 26





    Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 119, Verse 105





    I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 120, Verse 7





    I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. 1
 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not
 slumber.
 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time
 forth, and even for evermore.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 121, Verse 1

 1 See The Teaching for Merikare




    I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 122, Verse 1





    Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 122, Verse 7





    They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come
 again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 126, Verse 5-6





    Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except
 the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 127, Verse 1





    He giveth his beloved sleep.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 127, Verse 2





    As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 127, Verse 4-5





    Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 130, Verse 1





    My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 130, Verse 6





    I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 132, Verse 4





    Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in
 unity!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 133, Verse 1





    By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we
 remembered Zion.
 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they
 that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of
 Zion.
 How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 137, Verse 1-6





    O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; thou understandest my thought
 afar off.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 139, Verse 1-2





    Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy
 presence?
 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell,
 behold, thou art there.
 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the
 sea;
 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 139, Verse 7-10





    The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 139, Verse 12





    I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 139, Verse 14





    They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 140, Verse 3





    Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 145, Verse 16





    The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon
 him in truth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 145, Verse 18





    Put not your trust in princes.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 146, Verse 3





    He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 147, Verse 4





    Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery
 and harp.
 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments
 and organs.
 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
 1
 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Psalms Chapter 150, Verse 3-6

 1 See II Samuel 6:5




    To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and
 discretion.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 1, Verse 4





    My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 1, Verse 10





    Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 1, Verse 20





    Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and
 honor.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 3, Verse 16





    Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 3, Verse 17





    Be not afraid of sudden fear.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 3, Verse 25





    Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy
 getting get understanding.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 4, Verse 7





    The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more
 unto the perfect day.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 4, Verse 18





    Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 4, Verse 23





    The lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is
 smoother than oil:
 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 5, Verse 3-4





    Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 6-8





    Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to
 sleep:
 So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth, and thy want as an armed
 man.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 10-11





    Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with
 her eyelids.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 25





    Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 27-28





    Jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of
 vengeance.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 34





    He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 7, Verse 22





    I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 8, Verse 17





    Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 1





    Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will
 love thee.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 8





    Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 17





    A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of
 his mother.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 10, Verse 1





    Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth
 of the wicked.
 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 10, Verse 6-7





    Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 10, Verse 12





    In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
 He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 11, Verse 14-15





    As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is
 without discretion.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 11, Verse 22





    He that trusteth in his riches shall fall.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 11, Verse 28





    He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 11, Verse 29





    A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 12, Verse 4





    A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies
 of the wicked are cruel.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 12, Verse 10





    The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 12, Verse 15





    Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 12





    The way of transgressors is hard.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 15





    The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 19





    He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth
 him betimes. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 24

 1 See Menander
 2 See Butler




    Fools make a mock at sin.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 9





    The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle
 with his joy.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 10





    Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 13





    The prudent man looketh well to his going.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 15





    In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to
 penury.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 23





    Righteousness exalteth a nation.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 34





    A soft answer turneth away wrath.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 1





    A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart
 the spirit is broken.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 13





    He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
 Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble
 therewith.
 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred
 therewith. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 15-17

 1 See The Teaching for Merikare
 2 See Amenemope




    A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth
 strife.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 18





    A word spoken in due season, how good is it!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 23





    Before honor is humility.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 33 Chapter 18, Verse 12





    A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 16, Verse 9





    Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 16, Verse 18

 1 See Sophocles




    The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of
 righteousness.
 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his
 spirit than he that taketh a city.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 16, Verse 31-32





    Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 5





    He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 9





    Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 13





    A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 22





    He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is
 of an excellent spirit.
 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 27-28





    A fool's mouth is his destruction.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 7





    A wounded spirit who can bear?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 14





    A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their
 contentions are like the bars of a castle.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 19





    Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 22





    A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend
 that sticketh closer than a brother.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 24





    Wealth maketh many friends.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 19, Verse 4





    A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a
 wife are a continual dropping.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 19, Verse 13





    He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 19, Verse 17





    Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 1





    It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be
 meddling.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 3





    Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and
 whether it be right.
 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 11-12





    It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way,
 then he boasteth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 14





    Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be
 filled with gravel.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 17





    Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 19





    It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling
 woman in a wide house.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 21, Verse 9 Chapter 25, Verse 24





    A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 1





    Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not
 depart from it.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 6





    The borrower is servant to the lender.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 7





    Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart
 unto my knowledge.
 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal
 be fitted in thy lips. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 17-18

 1 See Amenemope




    Have I not written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou
 mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 20-21





    Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in
 the gate. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 22

 1 See Amenemope
 2 See Ecclesiasticus 4:1




    Remove not the ancient landmark.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 28





    Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings. 1


 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 29

 1 See Amenemope




    Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 2





    Labor not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 4

 1 See Amenemope




    Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward
 heaven. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 5

 1 See Amenemope




    As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 7





    The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall
 clothe a man with rags.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 21





    Despise not thy mother when she is old.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 22





    Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in
 the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 31-32





    A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 24, Verse 5





    If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 24, Verse 10





    A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 11





    If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty,
 give him water to drink:
 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 21-22





    As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 25





    For men to search their own glory is not glory.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 27





    Answer a fool according to his folly.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 26, Verse 5





    As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than
 of him.
 The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the
 streets.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 26, Verse 11-13





    Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it
 will return upon him.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 26, Verse 27





    Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring
 forth. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 1

 1 See Sophocles




    Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 2





    Open rebuke is better than secret love.
 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are
 deceitful.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 5-6





    To the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 7





    Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 10





    Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 17





    The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a
 lion.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 28, Verse 1





    He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 28, Verse 20





    He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 28, Verse 26





    He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 28, Verse 27





    A fool uttereth all his mind.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 11





    Where there is no vision, the people perish.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 18





    A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in
 spirit.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 23





    Give me neither poverty nor riches.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 8





    Accuse not a servant unto his master.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 10





    The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 15





    There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I
 know not:
 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of
 a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 18-19





    Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those
 that be of heavy hearts.
 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 6-7





    Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 10-11





    Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of
 the land.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 23





    Strength and honor are her clothing.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 25





    In her tongue is the law of kindness.
 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of
 idleness.
 Her children arise up, and call her blessed.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 26-28





    Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
 Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord,
 she shall be praised.
 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the
 gates.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 29-31





    Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is
 vanity.
 What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun?
 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth
 abideth for ever.
 The sun also ariseth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 1, Verse 2-5





    All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 1, Verse 7





    The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 1, Verse 8





    The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is
 done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 1, Verse 9





    There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any
 remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 1, Verse 11





    I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all
 is vanity and vexation of spirit.
 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting
 cannot be numbered.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 1, Verse 14-15





    In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth
 sorrow.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 1, Verse 18





    Wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 2, Verse 13





    One event happeneth to them all.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 2, Verse 14





    How dieth the wise man? as the fool.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 2, Verse 16





    To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the
 heaven.
 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck
 up that which is planted;
 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to
 build up;
 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to
 embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to
 speak; 1
 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 3, Verse 1-8

 1 See Homer




    Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living
 which are yet alive.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 4, Verse 2





    Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail
 and vexation of spirit.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 4, Verse 6





    A threefold cord is not quickly broken.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 4, Verse 12





    Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 4, Verse 13





    God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 5, Verse 2





    Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow
 and not pay.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 5, Verse 5





    The sleep of a laboring man is sweet . . . but the abundance of the rich
 will not suffer him to sleep.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 5, Verse 12





    As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he
 came, 1  and shall take nothing of his labor, which he may carry away in his
 hand. 2  3

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 5, Verse 15

 1 See Job 1:21
 2 See The Song of the Harper
 3 See I Timothy 6:7




    A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than
 the day of one's birth. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 1

 1 See Publilius Syrus




    It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of
 feasting.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 2





    As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 6





    Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 8





    In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 14





    Be not righteous over much.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 16





    There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 20





    And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and
 nets, and her hands as bands.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 26





    One man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I
 not found.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 28





    God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 7, Verse 29





    There is no discharge in that war.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 8, Verse 8





    A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and
 to be merry. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 8, Verse 15

 1 See Luke 12:19




    A living dog is better than a dead lion.
 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing,
 neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 9, Verse 4-5





    Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no
 work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou
 goest.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 9, Verse 10





    I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor
 the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to
 men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance
 happeneth to them all.
 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil
 net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men
 snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 9, Verse 11-12





    A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth
 all things.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 10, Verse 19





    A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall
 tell the matter.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 10, Verse 20





    Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 11, Verse 1





    He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the
 clouds shall not reap.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 11, Verse 4





    In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 11, Verse 6





    Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 11, Verse 9





    Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days
 come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure
 in them;
 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor
 the clouds return after the rain:
 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men
 shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those
 that look out of the windows be darkened,
 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding
 is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters
 of music shall be brought low.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 12, Verse 1-4





    The almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden,
 and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners
 go about the streets:
 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the
 pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall
 return unto God who gave it.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 12, Verse 5-7





    The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters
 of assemblies.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 12, Verse 11





    Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of
 the flesh.
 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his
 commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing,
 whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher Chapter 12, Verse 12-14





    The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 1, Verse 1





    I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of
 Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 1, Verse 5





    O thou fairest among women.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 1, Verse 8





    I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 1





    As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the
 sons.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 3





    His banner over me was love.
 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 4-5





    Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come,
 and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 10-12

 1 See Love Songs of the New Kingdom




    The little foxes, that spoil the vines.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 15





    Until the day break, and the shadows flee away.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 17 Chapter 4, Verse 6





    By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I
 found him not.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 3, Verse 1





    Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among
 the lilies.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 4, Verse 5





    Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 4, Verse 7





    How much better is thy love than wine!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 4, Verse 10





    Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the
 spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat
 his pleasant fruits.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 4, Verse 16





    My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were
 moved for him.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 5, Verse 4





    His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my
 beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 5, Verse 16





    Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as
 the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 6, Verse 10





    Return, return, O Shulamite.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 6, Verse 13





    Thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 2





    Thy neck is as a tower of ivory.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 4





    Like the best wine . . . that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of
 those that are asleep to speak.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 9





    I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 10





    Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is
 strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 8, Verse 6





    Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 8, Verse 7





    Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon
 the mountains of spices.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Song of Solomon Chapter 8, Verse 14





    The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 1, Verse 3





    The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 1, Verse 5





    As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 1, Verse 8





    Bring no more vain oblations.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 1, Verse 13





    Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the
 fatherless, plead for the widow.
 Come now, and let us reason together . . . though your sins be as scarlet,
 they shall be as white as snow.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 1, Verse 17-18





    They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into
 pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall
 they learn war any more.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 2, Verse 4





    In that day a man shall cast his idols . . . to the moles and to the
 bats.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 2, Verse 20





    Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 2, Verse 22





    The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of
 water.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 3, Verse 1





    What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the
 poor?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 3, Verse 15





    Walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as
 they go, and making a tinkling with their feet.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 3, Verse 16





    In that day seven women shall take hold of one man.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 4, Verse 1





    My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 5, Verse 1





    And he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but
 behold a cry.
 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there
 be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 5, Verse 7-8





    Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow
 strong drink.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 5, Verse 11





    Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were
 with a cart rope.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 5, Verse 18





    Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 5, Verse 20





    I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his
 train filled the temple.
 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered
 his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 6, Verse 1-2





    Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his
 glory.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 6, Verse 3





    Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I
 dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the
 King, the Lord of hosts.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 6, Verse 5





    I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go
 for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 6, Verse 8





    Then said I, Lord, how long?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 6, Verse 11





    Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
 Immanuel. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 7, Verse 14

 1 See Matthew 1:23




    For a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 8, Verse 14





    The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that
 dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 9, Verse 2





    For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government
 shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,
 Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 9, Verse 6-7





    The ancient and honorable, he is the head.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 9, Verse 15





    And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch
 shall grow out of his roots:
 And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and
 understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and
 of the fear of the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 11, Verse 1-2





    The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down
 with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and
 a little child shall lead them.
 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down
 together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
 And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned
 child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall
 be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 11, Verse 6-9





    For the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my
 salvation.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 12, Verse 2





    And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their
 iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay
 low the haughtiness of the terrible.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 13, Verse 11





    How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 14, Verse 12





    Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 14, Verse 16





    The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 17, Verse 13





    And they shall fight every one against his brother.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 19, Verse 2





    The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass
 through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 21, Verse 1





    Babylon is fallen, is fallen; 1  and all the graven images of her gods he
 hath broken unto the ground.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 21, Verse 9

 1 See Revelation 14:8




    Watchman, what of the night?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 21, Verse 11





    Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 22, Verse 13





    I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 22, Verse 23





    Whose merchants are princes.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 23, Verse 8





    As with the maid, so with her mistress.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 24, Verse 2





    For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his
 distress.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 25, Verse 4





    A feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 25, Verse 6





    He will swallow up death in victory; 1  2  and the Lord God will wipe
 away tears from off all faces. 3

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 25, Verse 8

 1 See Hosea 13:14
 2 See I Corinthians 15:54
 3 See Revelation 21:4




    Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may
 enter in.
 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 26, Verse 2-3





    Awake and sing.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 26, Verse 19





    Hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be
 overpast.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 26, Verse 20





    Leviathan that crooked serpent . . . the dragon that is in the sea.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 27, Verse 1





    For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line,
 line upon line; here a little, and there a little.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 28, Verse 10





    We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 28, Verse 15





    It shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 28, Verse 19





    They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong
 drink.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 29, Verse 9





    Their strength is to sit still.
 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may
 be for the time to come for ever and ever.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 30, Verse 7-8





    The bread of adversity, and the water of affliction.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 30, Verse 20





    This is the way, walk ye in it.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 30, Verse 21





    Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 32, Verse 1





    And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from
 the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadows of a great
 rock in a weary land.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 32, Verse 2





    An habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 34, Verse 13





    The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 35, Verse 1





    Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf
 shall be unstopped.
 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 35, Verse 5-6





    Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 35, Verse 10





    Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 36, Verse 6





    Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 37, Verse 17





    I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 38, Verse 15





    Comfort ye, comfort ye my people.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 1





    Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is
 accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the
 Lord's hand double for all her sins.
 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the
 Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 2-3





    Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made
 low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 4





    The voice said, Cry. And he said, what shall I cry? All flesh is grass,
 and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 6





    The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; 1  2  but the word of our God
 shall stand for ever.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 8

 1 See Psalm 90:5-
 2 See I Peter 1:24




    Get thee up into the high mountain . . . say unto the cities of Judah,
 Behold your God!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 9





    He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with
 his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are
 with young.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 11





    The nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust
 of the balance.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 15





    Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the
 beginning?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 21





    They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount
 up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary, and they shall
 walk, and not faint.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 40, Verse 31





    They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be
 of good courage.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 41, Verse 6





    A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not
 quench.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 42, Verse 3





    Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 45, Verse 9





    Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in
 the furnace of affliction.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 48, Verse 10





    O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been
 as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 48, Verse 18





    There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 48, Verse 22





    Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing
 unto Zion.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 51, Verse 11





    Thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 51, Verse 17





    Therefore hear now this.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 51, Verse 21





    How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good
 tidings, that publisheth peace.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 52, Verse 7





    They shall see eye to eye.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 52, Verse 8





    He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with
 grief.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 53, Verse 3





    Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 53, Verse 4





    All we like sheep have gone astray. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 53, Verse 6

 1 See Book of Common Prayer, A General Confession




    He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 53, Verse 7





    Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 55, Verse 1





    Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and
 commander to the people.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 55, Verse 4





    Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 55, Verse 7





    For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,
 saith the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 55, Verse 8





    Peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 57, Verse 19





    Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen
 upon thee.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 60, Verse 1





    A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 60, Verse 22





    Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment
 of praise for the spirit of heaviness.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 61, Verse 3





    I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with
 me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and
 their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my
 raiment.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 63, Verse 3





    All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 64, Verse 6





    We all are the work of thy hand.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 64, Verse 8





    I am holier than thou.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 65, Verse 5





    For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 65, Verse 17

 1 See Revelation 21:1




    And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant
 vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another
 eat.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 65, Verse 21-22





    As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Chapter 66, Verse 13





    They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his
 neighbor's wife.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 5, Verse 8





    Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have
 eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 5, Verse 21





    But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 5, Verse 23





    Saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 6, Verse 14 Chapter 8, Verse 11





    Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the
 good way, and walk therein.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 6, Verse 16





    Amend your ways and your doings.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 7, Verse 3 Chapter 26, Verse 13





    The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 8, Verse 20





    Is there no balm in Gilead?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 8, Verse 22





    Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 9, Verse 2





    Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither
 let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his
 riches:
 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth
 me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 9, Verse 23-24





    Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 13, Verse 23





    Our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 14, Verse 7





    Her sun is gone down while it was yet day.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 15, Verse 9





    A man of strife and a man of contention.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 15, Verse 10





    The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a
 diamond.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 17, Verse 1





    Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and
 whose heart departeth from the Lord.
 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good
 cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt
 land and not inhabited.
 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her
 roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall
 be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall
 cease from yielding fruit. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 17, Verse 5-8

 1 See Amenemope
 2 See see also Psalm 1:1-




    The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can
 know it?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 17, Verse 9





    As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that
 getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days,
 and at his end shall be a fool.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 17, Verse 11





    Thou art my hope in the day of evil.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 17, Verse 17





    O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 22, Verse 29





    A curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 29, Verse 18





    The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on
 edge.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 31, Verse 29





    With my whole heart and with my whole soul.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 32, Verse 41





    And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 45, Verse 5





    How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she
 become as a widow!

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Lamentations of Jeremiah Chapter 1, Verse 1





    She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all
 her lovers she hath none to comfort her.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Lamentations of Jeremiah Chapter 1, Verse 2





    Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be
 any sorrow like unto my sorrow.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Lamentations of Jeremiah Chapter 1, Verse 12





    Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Lamentations of Jeremiah Chapter 3, Verse 19





    It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Lamentations of Jeremiah Chapter 3, Verse 27





    As it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 1, Verse 16





    As is the mother, so is her daughter.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 16, Verse 44





    The king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 21, Verse 21





    The valley . . . was full of bones . . . and lo, they were very dry.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 37, Verse 1-2





    Can these bones live?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 37, Verse 3





    O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 37, Verse 4





    Every man's sword shall be against his brother.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 38, Verse 21





    His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Daniel Chapter 2, Verse 33





    Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the
 burning fiery furnace.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Daniel Chapter 3, Verse 23





    Nebuchadnezzar . . . was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Daniel Chapter 4, Verse 33





    Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Daniel Chapter 5, Verse 1





    And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy
 kingdom, and finished it.
 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Daniel Chapter 5, Verse 25-28





    According to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Daniel Chapter 6, Verse 12





    They brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Daniel Chapter 6, Verse 16





    So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found
 upon him, because he believed in his God.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Daniel Chapter 6, Verse 23





    The Ancient of days.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Daniel Chapter 7, Verse 9 Chapter 7, Verse 13





    Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 The Book of Daniel Chapter 12, Verse 4





    Ye are the sons of the living God.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Hosea Chapter 1, Verse 10





    Like people, like priest.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Hosea Chapter 4, Verse 9





    After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up,
 and we shall live in his sight.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Hosea Chapter 6, Verse 2





    He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the
 earth.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Hosea Chapter 6, Verse 3





    For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more
 than burnt offerings.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Hosea Chapter 6, Verse 6





    They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Hosea Chapter 8, Verse 7





    Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Hosea Chapter 10, Verse 13





    I drew them with . . . bands of love.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Hosea Chapter 11, Verse 4





    I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the
 prophets.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Hosea Chapter 12, Verse 10





    I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from
 death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction. 1
 2

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Hosea Chapter 13, Verse 14

 1 See Isaiah 25:8
 2 See I Corinthians 15:54




    Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Joel Chapter 2, Verse 28





    Multitudes in the valley of decision.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Joel Chapter 3, Verse 14





    They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Amos Chapter 2, Verse 6





    Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Amos Chapter 3, Verse 3





    Woe to them that are at ease in Zion.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Amos Chapter 6, Verse 1





    And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Jonah Chapter 1, Verse 17





    What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy,
 and to walk humbly with thy God?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Micah Chapter 6, Verse 8





    The faces of them all gather blackness.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Nahum Chapter 2, Verse 10





    Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that
 readeth it.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Habakkuk Chapter 2, Verse 2





    The stone shall cry out of the wall, 1  and the beam out of the timber
 shall answer it.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Habakkuk Chapter 2, Verse 11

 1 See Luke 19:40




    The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before
 him.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Habakkuk Chapter 2, Verse 20





    Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Zechariah Chapter 1, Verse 5





    I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Zechariah Chapter 2, Verse 6





    Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Zechariah Chapter 4, Verse 6





    For who hath despised the day of small things?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Zechariah Chapter 4, Verse 10





    Behold, thy King cometh unto thee . . . lowly, and riding upon an ass.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Zechariah Chapter 9, Verse 9





    Prisoners of hope.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Zechariah Chapter 9, Verse 12





    So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Zechariah Chapter 11, Verse 12

 1 See Matthew 26:15




    What are these wounds in thine hands? . . . Those with which I was
 wounded in the house of my friends.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Zechariah Chapter 13, Verse 6





    Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Malachi Chapter 2, Verse 10





    Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Malachi Chapter 3, Verse 1





    Behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Malachi Chapter 4, Verse 1





    Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with
 healing in his wings.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Malachi Chapter 4, Verse 2





    Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great
 and dreadful day of the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The Old Testament
 Malachi Chapter 4, Verse 5



 The Holy Bible

    And when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends
 and brethren, and a little after draw out swords.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 I Esdras Chapter 3, Verse 22





    Great is Truth, and mighty above all things.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 I Esdras Chapter 4, Verse 41





    What is past I know, but what is for to come I know not.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 II Esdras Chapter 4, Verse 46





    Now therefore keep thy sorrow to thyself, and bear with a good courage
 that which hath befallen thee.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 II Esdras Chapter 10, Verse 15





    I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not
 be put out.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 II Esdras Chapter 14, Verse 25





    If thou hast abundance, give alms accordingly: if thou have but a little,
 be not afraid to give according to that little.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 Tobit Chapter 4, Verse 8





    Put on her garments of gladness.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 Judith Chapter 10, Verse 3





    The ear of jealousy heareth all things.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 1, Verse 10





    Our time is a very shadow that passeth away.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 5





    Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 8





    For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his
 own eternity.
 Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 2, Verse 23-24





    The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no
 torment touch them.
 In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken
 for misery,
 And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
 For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of
 immortality.
 And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded: for God
 proved them, and found them worthy for himself.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 3, Verse 1-5





    They that put their trust in him shall understand the truth.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 3, Verse 9





    Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our
 end.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 5, Verse 13





    For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind
 . . . and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a
 day.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 5, Verse 14





    For the very true beginning of her [wisdom] is the desire of discipline;
 and the care of discipline is love.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 6, Verse 17





    And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth,
 which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as
 all others do.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 3





    All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 6





    The light that cometh from her [wisdom] never goeth out.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 10





    Who can number the sand of the sea, and the drops of rain, and the days
 of eternity?

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 1, Verse 2





    To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed?

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 1, Verse 6





    For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy, longsuffering, and very
 pitiful, and forgiveth sins, and saveth in time of affliction.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 2, Verse 11





    The greater thou art, the more humble thyself.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 3, Verse 18





    Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto
 the meek.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 3, Verse 19





    Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the
 things that are above thy strength.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 3, Verse 21





    Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are showed unto
 thee than men understand.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 3, Verse 23





    Profess not the knowledge . . . that thou hast not.
 A stubborn heart shall fare evil at the last.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 3, Verse 25-26





    Defraud not the poor of his living, and make not the needy eyes to wait
 long. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 4, Verse 1

 1 See Amenemope
 2 See Proverbs 22:22




    Wisdom exalteth her children, and layeth hold of them that seek her.
 He that loveth her loveth life.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 4, Verse 11-12





    Observe the opportunity.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 4, Verse 20





    Be not as a lion in thy house, nor frantic among thy servants.
 Let not thine hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou shouldest
 repay.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 4, Verse 30-31





    Set not thy heart upon thy goods; and say not, I have enough for my life.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 5, Verse 1





    Winnow not with every wind, and go not into every way.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 5, Verse 9





    Let thy life be sincere.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 5, Verse 11





    Be not ignorant of any thing in a great matter or a small.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 5, Verse 15





    If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 6, Verse 7





    A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one
 hath found a treasure.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 6, Verse 14





    A faithful friend is the medicine of life.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 6, Verse 16





    If thou seest a man of understanding, get thee betimes unto him, and let
 thy foot wear the steps of his door.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 6, Verse 36





    Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do
 amiss.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 7, Verse 36





    Rejoice not over thy greatest enemy being dead, but remember that we die
 all.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 8, Verse 7





    Miss not the discourse of the elders.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 8, Verse 9





    Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new
 friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 9, Verse 10





    Pride is hateful before God and man.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 10, Verse 7





    He that is today a king tomorrow shall die.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 10, Verse 10





    Pride was not made for men, nor furious anger for them that are born of a
 woman.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 10, Verse 18





    Be not overwise in doing thy business.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 10, Verse 26





    Many kings have sat down upon the ground; and one that was never thought
 of hath worn the crown.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 11, Verse 5





    In the day of prosperity there is a forgetfulness of affliction: and in
 the day of affliction there is no more remembrance of prosperity.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 11, Verse 25





    Judge none blessed before his death. 1  2  3

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 11, Verse 28

 1 See Solon
 2 See Aeschylus
 3 See Sophocles




    A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot be hidden in
 adversity.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 12, Verse 8





    He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 13, Verse 1





    How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together?

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 13, Verse 2





    All flesh consorteth according to kind, and a man will cleave to his
 like. 1

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 13, Verse 16

 1 See Homer




    A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends: but a poor man
 being down is thrust also away by his friends.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 13, Verse 21





    The heart of a man changeth his countenance, whether it be for good or
 evil.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 13, Verse 25





    So is a word better than a gift.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 18, Verse 16





    Be not made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 18, Verse 33





    He that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 19, Verse 1





    Whether it be to friend or foe, talk not of other men's lives.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 19, Verse 8





    A man's attire, and excessive laughter, and gait, show what he is.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 19, Verse 30





    A tale out of season [is as] music in mourning.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 22, Verse 6





    I will not be ashamed to defend a friend.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 22, Verse 25





    All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 25, Verse 19





    The discourse of fools is irksome.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 27, Verse 13





    Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen
 by the tongue.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 28, Verse 18





    Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than delicate fare in
 another man's house.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 29, Verse 22





    There is no riches above a sound body.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 30, Verse 16





    Gladness of the heart is the life of a man, and the joyfulness of a man
 prolongeth his days.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 30, Verse 22





    Envy and wrath shorten the life, and carefulness bringeth age before the
 time.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 30, Verse 24





    Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the care thereof driveth
 away sleep.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 31, Verse 1





    Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 32, Verse 8





    Consider that I labored not for myself only, but for all them that seek
 learning.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 33, Verse 17





    Leave not a stain in thine honor.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 33, Verse 22





    Let the counsel of thine own heart stand.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 37, Verse 13





    Honor a physician with the honor due unto him for the uses which ye may
 have of him: for the Lord hath created him.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 38, Verse 1





    When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; and be comforted for
 him, when his spirit is departed from him.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 38, Verse 23





    How can he get wisdom . . . whose talk is of bullocks?

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 38, Verse 25





    Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 44, Verse 1





    All these were honored in their generations, and were the glory of their
 times.
 There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises
 might be reported.
 And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they
 had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their
 children after them.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 44, Verse 7-9





    Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 44, Verse 14





    His word burned like a lamp.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach,
 or Ecclesiasticus Chapter 48, Verse 1





    O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise him and exalt him
 above all for ever.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Song of the Three
 Holy Children 35





    Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The History of Susanna 61





    It is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the
 story itself.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Second Book of the Maccabees Chapter 2, Verse 32





    When he was at the last gasp.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Second Book of the Maccabees Chapter 7, Verse 9





    Speech finely framed delighteth the ears.

 The Holy Bible, The Apocrypha
 The Second Book of the Maccabees Chapter 15, Verse 39



 The Holy Bible

    Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and
 they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 1, Verse 23

 1 See Isaiah 7:14




    Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the
 king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star
 in the east, and are come to worship him.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 2, Verse 1-2





    They saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and
 worshipped him: and . . . they presented unto him gifts; gold, and
 frankincense, and myrrh.
 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod,
 they departed into their own country another way.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 2, Verse 11-12





    Out of Egypt have I called my son.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 2, Verse 15





    Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they
 are not.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 2, Verse 18





    He shall be called a Nazarene.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 2, Verse 23





    Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 2





    The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the
 Lord, make his paths straight. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 3

 1 See Isaiah 40:3




    And his meat was locusts and wild honey.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 4





    O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to
 come?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 7





    Now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree
 which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 10





    The Spirit of God descending like a dove.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 16





    This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 17





    And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an
 hungred.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 4, Verse 2





    The people which sat in darkness saw great light. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 4, Verse 16

 1 See Psalm 107:10
 2 See Luke 1:79




    Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 4, Verse 19





    Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 1
 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they
 shall be filled.
 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is
 the kingdom of heaven.
 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say
 all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 3-11

 1 See Psalm 37:11




    Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor,
 wherewith shall it be salted?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 13





    Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be
 hid.
 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a
 candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and
 glorify your Father which is in heaven.
 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come
 to destroy, but to fulfill.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 14-17





    Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass
 from the law, till all be fulfilled.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 18





    Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery
 with her already in his heart.
 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for
 it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not
 that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 28-30





    Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:
 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 34-35





    Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn
 to him the other also.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 39





    Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate
 you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 44





    He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain
 on the just and on the unjust.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 45





    Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is
 perfect.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 48





    When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand
 doeth.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 3





    After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven,
 Hallowed be thy name.
 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
 Give us this day our daily bread.
 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the
 kingdom, and the power, and the glory, 1  for ever. Amen.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 9-13

 1 See Chronicles 29:11




    Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth
 corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 19-20





    For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 21





    The light of the body is the eye.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 22





    If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that
 darkness!

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 23





    No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love
 the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot
 serve God and mammon.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 24





    Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor
 gather into barns.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 25-26





    Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 27





    Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither
 do they spin.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 28





    Even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 29





    Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these
 things shall be added unto you.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 33





    Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take
 thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil
 thereof.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verse 34





    Judge not, that ye be not judged.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 1





    With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but
 considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 2-3





    Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 5





    Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 6





    Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it
 shall be opened unto you.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 7





    Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him
 a stone?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 9





    Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye
 even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 12





    Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and
 many there be which go in thereat:
 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life,
 and few there be that find it.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
  1 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 13-14

 1 See Hesiod




    Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but
 inwardly they are ravening wolves.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 15





    Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or
 figs of thistles?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 16





    By their fruits ye shall know them.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 20





    Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
 kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in
 heaven.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 21





    [The house] fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 25





    A foolish man, which built his house upon the sand.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 26





    But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness:
 there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 8, Verse 12





    The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of
 man hath not where to lay his head.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 8, Verse 20





    Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 8, Verse 22





    Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 8, Verse 26





    He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 9





    They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 12





    I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 13





    Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is
 with them?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 15





    Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 17





    The maid is not dead, but sleepeth.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 24





    The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 37





    Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 6





    Freely ye have received, freely give.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 8





    Whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out
 of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 14





    Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 16





    Ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 22





    The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 24





    Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall
 on the ground without your Father.
 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 29-30





    I came not to send peace, but a sword.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 34





    He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of
 me.
 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my
 sake shall find it. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 10, Verse 38-39

 1 See Matthew 16:25




    He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 11, Verse 15





    The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man
 gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom
 is justified of her children.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 11, Verse 19





    Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you
 rest.
 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart:
 and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 11, Verse 28-30





    He that is not with me is against me.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 12, Verse 30





    The tree is known by his fruit.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 12, Verse 33





    Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 12, Verse 34





    Behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 12, Verse 42





    Some seeds fell by the way side.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 4





    Because they had no root, they withered away.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 6





    But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an
 hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 8





    The care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 22





    The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 31





    Pearl of great price.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 46





    The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and
 gathered of every kind. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 47

 1 See Lao-tzu




    Is not this the carpenter's son?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 55





    A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 13, Verse 57





    [Salome] the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 6





    Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 8





    We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 17





    And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments
 that remained twelve baskets full.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 20





    And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the
 sea.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 25





    Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 27





    O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 31





    Of a truth thou art the Son of God.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 33





    Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh
 out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 15, Verse 11





    They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both
 shall fall into the ditch.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 15, Verse 14





    The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 15, Verse 27





    When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 16, Verse 2





    The signs of the times.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 16, Verse 3





    Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 16, Verse 16





    Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates
 of hell shall not prevail against it.
 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 16, Verse 18-19





    Get thee behind me, Satan.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 16, Verse 23





    Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his
 life for my sake shall find it. 1
 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his
 own soul?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 16, Verse 25-26

 1 See Matthew 10:39




    Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter
 into the kingdom of heaven.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 3





    He rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went
 not astray.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 13





    Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the
 midst of them. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 20

 1 See Book of Common Prayer, A Prayer of St. Chrysostom




    Until seventy times seven.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 22





    What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 19, Verse 6

 1 See Book of Common Prayer, Solemnization of Matrimony




    If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the
 poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 19, Verse 21





    It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a
 rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 19, Verse 24





    Many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 19, Verse 30





    Borne the burden and heat of the day.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 20, Verse 12





    Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 20, Verse 15





    Overthrew the tables of the moneychangers.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 21, Verse 12





    My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den
 of thieves.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 21, Verse 13





    They made light of it.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 22, Verse 5





    Many are called, but few are chosen.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 22, Verse 14





    Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God
 the things that are God's.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 22, Verse 21





    Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
 soul, and with all thy mind. 1
 This is the first and great commandment.
 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 2
 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 22, Verse 37-40

 1 See Deuteronomy 6:5
 2 See Leviticus 19:18




    Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble
 himself shall be exalted.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 12





    Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint
 and anise and cumin.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 23





    Blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 24





    Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within
 full of dead men's bones.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 27





    O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them
 which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children
 together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would
 not!

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 37





    Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled:
 for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
 For nation shall rise against nation.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 6-7





    Abomination of desolation.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 15





    Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 28





    And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 31





    Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 35





    The one shall be taken, and the other left.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 40





    Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took
 their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 1-2





    Well done, thou good and faithful servant . . . enter thou into the joy
 of thy lord.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 21





    Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but
 from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 29





    Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 30





    And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them
 one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 32





    For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me
 drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison,
 and ye came unto me.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 35-36





    Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren,
 ye have done it unto me.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 25, Verse 40





    There came unto him [Jesus] a woman having an alabaster box of very
 precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 7





    To what purpose is this waste?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 8





    For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 11

 1 See Deuteronomy 15:11




    What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they
 covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 15

 1 See Zechariah 11:12




    My time is at hand.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 18





    Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 21





    And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say
 unto him, Lord, is it I?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 22





    It had been good for that man [Judas] if he had not been born.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 24





    Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the
 disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye
 all of it;
 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the
 remission of sins.
 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine,
 until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 26-29

 1 See I Corinthians 11:24, 25




    My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 38





    O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless,
 not as I will, but as thou wilt.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 39





    Could ye not watch with me one hour?
 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is
 willing, but the flesh is weak.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 40-41





    Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the
 hands of sinners.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 45





    He came to Jesus, and said, Hail, Master; and kissed him.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 49





    All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 52





    Thy speech bewrayeth thee.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 73





    Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And
 immediately the cock crew.
 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus . . . Before the cock crow, thou
 shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 74-75





    The potter's field, to bury strangers in.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 7





    Have thou nothing to do with that just man.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 19





    Let him be crucified.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 22





    [Pilate] took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I
 am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 24





    His blood be on us, and on our children.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 25





    A place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 33





    This is Jesus the King of the Jews.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 37





    He saved others; himself he cannot save.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 42





    Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou
 forsaken me? 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 46

 1 See Psalm 22:1




    And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the
 bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 51





    His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 28, Verse 3





    Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
 Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 28, Verse 19





    Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Chapter 28, Verse 20





    There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I
 am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 1, Verse 7





    Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 2, Verse 9





    The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 2, Verse 27





    If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 3, Verse 25





    The earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear,
 after that the full corn in the ear.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 4, Verse 28





    What manner of man is this?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 4, Verse 41





    They came . . . into the country of the Gadarenes.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 5, Verse 1





    My name is Legion: for we are many.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 5, Verse 9





    And the unclean spirits went out, and entered the swine: and the herd ran
 violently down a steep place into the sea . . . and were choked in the sea.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 5, Verse 13





    Clothed, and in his right mind.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 5, Verse 15





    My little daughter lieth at the point of death.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 5, Verse 23





    Knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 5, Verse 30





    I see men as trees, walking.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 8, Verse 24





    Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 9, Verse 24





    Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of
 such is the kingdom of God.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 10, Verse 14





    Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 12, Verse 40





    And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 12, Verse 42





    Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh,
 at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 13, Verse 35-36





    He is risen. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 16, Verse 6

 1 See Luke 24:34
 2 See The Book of Common Prayer




    Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Mark Chapter 16, Verse 15





    Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art
 thou among women.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 28





    For with God nothing shall be impossible.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 37





    Blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 42





    My soul doth magnify the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 46





    For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from
 henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 48





    He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low
 degree.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 51-52





    He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent
 empty away.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 53





    Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his
 people.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 68





    As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the
 world began:
 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate
 us.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 70-71





    Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high
 hath visited us,
 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 1, Verse 78-79

 1 See Psalm 107:10
 2 See Matthew 4:16




    And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling
 clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the
 inn.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 2, Verse 7





    There were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping
 watch over their flock by night.
 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord
 shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good
 tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ
 the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 2, Verse 8-11





    Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 2, Verse 14





    Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 2, Verse 29





    A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 2, Verse 32





    Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 2, Verse 49





    Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 2, Verse 52





    [The devil] showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of
 time.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 4, Verse 5





    For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep
 thee:
 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy
 foot against a stone.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 4, Verse 10-11





    Physician, heal thyself.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 4, Verse 23





    Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 6, Verse 26





    Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 7, Verse 47





    And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 7, Verse 50





    Nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 8, Verse 17





    No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the
 kingdom of God.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 9, Verse 62





    Nor scrip, nor shoes.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 4





    Peace be to this house.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 5





    The laborer is worthy of his hire.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 7





    I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 18





    Many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see,
 and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not
 heard them.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 24





    A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among
 thieves.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 30





    A certain Samaritan . . . had compassion on him.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 33





    Go, and do thou likewise.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 37





    But Martha was cumbered about much serving.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 40





    But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which
 shall not be taken away from her.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 10, Verse 42





    This is an evil generation: they seek a sign.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 11, Verse 29





    Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat,
 drink, and be merry. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 12, Verse 19

 1 See Ecclesiastes 8:15




    Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 12, Verse 20





    Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 12, Verse 35





    For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to
 whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 12, Verse 48





    The poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 14, Verse 21





    Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and
 counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 14, Verse 28





    Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 15, Verse 6





    [The prodigal son] wasted his substance with riotous living.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 15, Verse 13





    Bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 15, Verse 23





    For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 15, Verse 24





    Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 15, Verse 31





    What shall I do? . . . I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 16, Verse 3





    The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the
 children of light.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 16, Verse 8





    He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and
 he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 16, Verse 10





    The beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 16, Verse 22





    Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 16, Verse 26





    It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and
 he cast into the sea.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 17, Verse 2





    The kingdom of God is within you.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 17, Verse 21





    Remember Lot's wife.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 17, Verse 32





    Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the
 other a publican.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 18, Verse 10





    God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 18, Verse 11





    God be merciful to me a sinner.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 18, Verse 13





    Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 19, Verse 22





    If these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. 1


 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 19, Verse 40

 1 See Habakkuk 2:11




    He is not a God of the dead, but of the living.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 20, Verse 38





    In your patience possess ye your souls.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 21, Verse 19





    The Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 21, Verse 27





    This do in remembrance of me. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 22, Verse 19

 1 See I Corinthians 11:24




    Not my will, but thine, be done.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 22, Verse 42





    For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the
 dry?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 23, Verse 31





    The place, which is called Calvary.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 23, Verse 33





    Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 23, Verse 34





    Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 23, Verse 42





    To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 23, Verse 43





    Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 23, Verse 46





    He gave up the ghost.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. Luke Chapter 23, Verse 46





    He was a good man, and a just.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament






    Why seek ye the living among the dead?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament






    Their words seemed to them as idle tales.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament






    Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament






    The Lord is risen indeed. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament


 1 See Mark 16:6
 2 See The Book of Common Prayer




    In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
 was God.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 1





    And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 5





    There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 6





    The true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 9





    The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us . . . full of grace and
 truth.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 14





    No man hath seen God at any time.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 18





    Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 29





    Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 46





    Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and
 descending upon the Son of man.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 1, Verse 51





    Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 2, Verse 4





    The water that was made wine.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 2, Verse 9





    This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested
 forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 2, Verse 11





    When he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the
 temple.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 2, Verse 15





    Make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 2, Verse 16





    Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 3, Verse 3





    The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof,
 but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one
 that is born of the Spirit.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 3, Verse 8





    How can these things be?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 3, Verse 9





    God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
 whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 3, Verse 16





    There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give
 me to drink.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 4, Verse 7





    The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the
 Father in spirit and in truth.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 4, Verse 23





    He was a burning and a shining light.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 5, Verse 35





    Search the scriptures.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 5, Verse 39





    What are they among so many?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 6, Verse 9





    Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 6, Verse 12





    I am the bread of life: 1  he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and
 he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 6, Verse 35

 1 See Psalm 105:40




    It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 6, Verse 63





    Judge not according to the appearance.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 7, Verse 24





    Never man spake like this man.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 7, Verse 46





    He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 8, Verse 7





    Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 8, Verse 11





    I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in
 darkness, but shall have the light of life.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 8, Verse 12





    The truth shall make you free.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 8, Verse 32





    Ye are of your father the devil . . . there is no truth in him. . . . he
 is a liar, and the father of it.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 8, Verse 44





    I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night
 cometh, when no man can work.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 9, Verse 4





    Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas
 I was blind, now I see.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 9, Verse 25





    I am the door.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 10, Verse 9





    I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more
 abundantly.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 10, Verse 10





    I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 10, Verse 11





    Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 10, Verse 16





    I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he
 were dead, yet shall he live:
 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 11, Verse 25-26





    Jesus wept.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 11, Verse 35





    It is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 11, Verse 50





    Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which
 should betray him,
 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the
 poor. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 12, Verse 4-5

 1 See Matthew 26:7 and 26:8




    Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light,
 lest darkness come upon you.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 12, Verse 35





    That thou doest, do quickly.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 13, Verse 27





    A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 13, Verse 34





    Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told
 you. I go to prepare a place for you.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 14, Verse 1-2





    I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye
 may be also.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 14, Verse 3





    I am the way, the truth, and the life.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 14, Verse 6





    I will not leave you comfortless.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 14, Verse 18





    Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world
 giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
 afraid.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 14, Verse 27





    Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his
 friends.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 15, Verse 13





    Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 15, Verse 16





    Whither goest thou?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 16, Verse 5





    Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 16, Verse 24





    Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 16, Verse 33





    Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 18, Verse 38





    Now Barabbas was a robber.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 18, Verse 40





    Behold the man!

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 19, Verse 5





    Woman, behold thy son!

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 19, Verse 26





    It is finished.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 19, Verse 30





    Touch me not.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 20, Verse 17





    Then saith he to Thomas . . . be not faithless, but believing.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 20, Verse 27





    Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Gospel According to St. John Chapter 20, Verse 29





    Suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 2, Verse 2





    There appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon
 each of them.
 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other
 tongues.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 2, Verse 3-4





    Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 3, Verse 6





    And distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 4, Verse 35





    If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 5, Verse 38-39





    Thy money perish with thee.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 8, Verse 20





    In the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 8, Verse 23





    Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples
 of the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 9, Verse 1





    Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 9, Verse 4





    It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 9, Verse 5

 1 See Aeschylus




    He is a chosen vessel unto me.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 9, Verse 15





    Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 9, Verse 18





    What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 10, Verse 15





    God is no respecter of persons.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 10, Verse 34





    The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 14, Verse 11





    We also are men of like passions with you.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 14, Verse 15





    Come over into Macedonia, and help us.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 16, Verse 9





    Certain lewd fellows of the baser sort.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 17, Verse 5





    Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this
 inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 17, Verse 22-23





    God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord
 of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing,
 seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face
 of the earth.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 17, Verse 24-26





    For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your
 own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 1  2  3

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 17, Verse 28

 1 See Aeschylus
 2 See Cleanthes
 3 See Aratus




    Your blood be upon your own heads.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 18, Verse 6





    And Gallio cared for none of those things.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 18, Verse 17





    Mighty in the Scriptures.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 18, Verse 24





    We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 19, Verse 2





    All with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana
 of the Ephesians.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 19, Verse 34





    It is more blessed to give than to receive.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 20, Verse 35





    I [Paul] am . . . a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no
 mean city.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 21, Verse 39





    Brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 22, Verse 3





    And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom.
 And Paul said, But I was free born.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 22, Verse 28





    God shall smite thee, thou whited wall.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 23, Verse 3





    Revilest thou God's high priest?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 23, Verse 4





    I [Paul] am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 23, Verse 6





    A conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 24, Verse 16





    When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 24, Verse 25





    I appeal unto Caesar.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 25, Verse 11





    Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 26, Verse 24





    I am not mad . . . but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 26, Verse 25





    For this thing was not done in a corner.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 26, Verse 26





    Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 26, Verse 28





    Wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 2, Verse 1





    These, having not the law, are a law unto themselves.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 2, Verse 14





    The things that are more excellent.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 2, Verse 18





    Where no law is, there is no transgression.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 4, Verse 15





    Who against hope believed in hope.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 4, Verse 18





    Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 5, Verse 20





    Death hath no more dominion over him.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 6, Verse 9





    I speak after the manner of men.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 6, Verse 19





    The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 6, Verse 23





    The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I
 do. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 7, Verse 19

 1 See Euripides
 2 See Ovid




    Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 7, Verse 24





    Heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 17





    For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain
 together until now.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 22





    All things work together for good to them that love God.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 28





    For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the
 image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called,
 them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 29-30





    If God be for us, who can be against us?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 31





    Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that
 justifieth.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 33





    Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 35





    Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor
 things present, nor things to come,
 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us
 from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 8, Verse 38-39





    Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one
 vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 9, Verse 21





    For who hath known the mind of the Lord?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 11, Verse 34





    I beseech you therefore, brethren . . . that ye present your bodies a
 living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable
 service. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 1

 1 See Book of Common Prayer




    Let love be without dissimulation.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 9





    Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 10





    Given to hospitality.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 13





    Be not wise in your own conceits.
 Recompense to no man evil for evil.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 16-17





    If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 18





    Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 19





    Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 12, Verse 21





    The powers that be are ordained of God.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 13, Verse 1





    Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due;
 custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.
 Owe no man anything, but to love one another.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 13, Verse 7-8





    Love is the fulfilling of the law.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 13, Verse 10





    The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the
 works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in
 chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh,
 to fulfil the lusts thereof.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 13, Verse 12-14





    Doubtful disputations.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 14, Verse 1





    Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 14, Verse 5





    For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto
 the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 14, Verse 7-8





    Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 14, Verse 19





    We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and
 not to please ourselves.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans Chapter 15, Verse 1





    God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and
 God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which
 are mighty.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 1, Verse 27





    As it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 2, Verse 9





    I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 3, Verse 6





    We are laborers together with God: ye are God's husbandry.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 3, Verse 9





    Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it,
 because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's
 work of what sort it is.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 3, Verse 13





    For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 3, Verse 17





    We are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 4, Verse 9





    Absent in body, but present in spirit.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 5, Verse 3





    A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 5, Verse 6





    For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 5, Verse 7





    It is better to marry than to burn.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 7, Verse 9





    The fashion of this world passeth away.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 7, Verse 31





    Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 8, Verse 1





    I am made all things to all men.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 9, Verse 22





    Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the
 prize?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 9, Verse 24





    Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 12





    All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 23





    The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 26

 1 See Psalm 24:1




    If a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 15





    Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in
 remembrance of me. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 24

 1 See Matthew 26:26
 2 See Luke 22:19




    This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink
 it, in remembrance of me. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 25

 1 See Matthew 26:27-9




    Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not
 charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 13, Verse 1





    Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not
 charity, I am nothing.
 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body
 to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth
 not itself, is not puffed up.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 13, Verse 2-4





    Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all
 things.
 Charity never faileth.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 13, Verse 7-8





    We know in part, and we prophesy in part.
 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be
 done away.
 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought
 as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1
 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: 2  now I know
 in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these
 is charity.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 13, Verse 9-13

 1 See Homer
 2 See Genesis 32:30




    If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the
 battle?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 14, Verse 8





    Let all things be done decently and in order.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 14, Verse 40





    And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an
 apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
 But by the grace of God I am what I am.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 8-10





    But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them
 that slept.
 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 20-22





    The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 26





    Evil communications corrupt good manners.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 33





    Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 36





    One star differeth from another star in glory.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 41





    It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 42





    The first man is of the earth, earthy.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 47





    Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be
 changed,
 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet
 shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
 changed.
 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
 immortality.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 51-53





    Death is swallowed up in victory. 1  2
 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 15, Verse 54-55

 1 See Isaiah 25:8
 2 See Hosea 13:14




    Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 16, Verse 13

 1 See I Samuel 4:9




    If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 the Corinthians Chapter 16, Verse 22





    Not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the
 spirit giveth life.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the
 Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 3, Verse 6





    Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the
 Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 3, Verse 12





    The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen
 are eternal.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the
 Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 4, Verse 18





    We walk by faith, not by sight.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the
 Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 5, Verse 7





    Now is the accepted time.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the
 Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 6, Verse 2





    By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the
 Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 6, Verse 8





    As having nothing, and yet possessing all things. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the
 Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 6, Verse 10

 1 See Terence
 2 See Wotton




    God loveth a cheerful giver.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the
 Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 9, Verse 7





    Though I be rude in speech.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the
 Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 6





    For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the
 Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 19





    Forty stripes save one.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the
 Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 24





    A thorn in the flesh. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the
 Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 12, Verse 7

 1 See Judges 2:3




    My strength is made perfect in weakness.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the
 Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 12, Verse 9





    The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
 communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the
 Apostle to the Corinthians Chapter 13, Verse 14





    The right hands of fellowship.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 2, Verse 9





    Weak and beggarly elements.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 4, Verse 9





    It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 4, Verse 18





    Ye are fallen from grace.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 5, Verse 4





    For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the
 flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the
 things that ye would.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 5, Verse 17





    The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
 goodness, faith,
 Meekness, temperance.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 5, Verse 22-23





    Every man shall bear his own burden.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 6, Verse 5





    Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that
 shall he also reap.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 6, Verse 7





    Let us not be weary in well doing.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians Chapter 6, Verse 9





    To be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians Chapter 3, Verse 16





    Carried about with every wind of doctrine.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians Chapter 4, Verse 14





    We are members one of another.
 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians Chapter 4, Verse 25-26





    Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
 and making melody in your heart to the Lord. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians Chapter 5, Verse 19

 1 See Psalm 95:1-
 2 See Book of Common Prayer, Morning Prayer (Venite)




    Put on the whole armor of God.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians Chapter 6, Verse 11





    For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
 against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against
 spiritual wickedness in high places.
 Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to
 withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians Chapter 6, Verse 12-13





    To live is Christ, and to die is gain.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
 Philippians Chapter 1, Verse 21





    Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
 Philippians Chapter 2, Verse 12





    For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good
 pleasure.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
 Philippians Chapter 2, Verse 13





    This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and
 reaching forth unto those things which are before,
 I press toward the mark.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
 Philippians Chapter 3, Verse 13-14





    Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in
 their shame, who mind earthly things.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
 Philippians Chapter 3, Verse 19





    The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts
 and minds through Christ Jesus.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
 Philippians Chapter 4, Verse 7





    Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever
 things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
 whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there
 be any praise, think on these things.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
 Philippians Chapter 4, Verse 8





    I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
 Philippians Chapter 4, Verse 11





    By him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in
 earth, visible and invisible . . . all things were created by him, and for
 him:
 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
 Colossians Chapter 1, Verse 16-17





    Touch not; taste not; handle not.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
 Colossians Chapter 2, Verse 21





    Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
 Colossians Chapter 3, Verse 2





    Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision,
 Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
 Colossians Chapter 3, Verse 11





    Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
 Colossians Chapter 3, Verse 21





    Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
 Colossians Chapter 4, Verse 6





    Luke, the beloved physician.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
 Colossians Chapter 4, Verse 14





    Labor of love.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle
 to the Thessalonians Chapter 1, Verse 3





    Study to be quiet, and to do your own business.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle
 to the Thessalonians Chapter 4, Verse 11





    The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle
 to the Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 2





    Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not
 of the night, nor of darkness.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle
 to the Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 5





    Putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope
 of salvation.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle
 to the Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 8





    Pray without ceasing.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle
 to the Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 17





    Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle
 to the Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 21





    The law is good, if a man use it lawfully.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 1, Verse 8





    Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 1, Verse 15





    For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care
 of the church of God? 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 3, Verse 5

 1 See Sophocles




    Not greedy of filthy lucre.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 3, Verse 8





    Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot
 iron.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 4, Verse 2





    Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be
 received with thanksgiving.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 4, Verse 4





    Refuse profane and old wives' fables.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 4, Verse 7





    Let them learn first to show piety at home.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 5, Verse 4





    But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own
 house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 5, Verse 8





    They learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only
 idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought
 not.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 5, Verse 13





    Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 5, Verse 23





    We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry
 nothing out.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 6, Verse 7





    The love of money is the root of all evil.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 6, Verse 10





    Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 6, Verse 12





    Rich in good works.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 6, Verse 18





    O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane
 and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy Chapter 6, Verse 20





    For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love,
 and of a sound mind.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 Timothy Chapter 1, Verse 7





    A workman that needeth not to be ashamed.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 Timothy Chapter 2, Verse 15





    Be instant in season, out of season.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 Timothy Chapter 4, Verse 2





    I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the
 faith.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 Timothy Chapter 4, Verse 7





    The Lord reward him according to his works.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
 Timothy Chapter 4, Verse 14





    Unto the pure all things are pure.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul to Titus Chapter 1, Verse 15





    Making mention of thee always in my prayers.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul to Philemon Chapter 1, Verse 4





    Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 1, Verse 7





    The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged
 sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the
 joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
 heart.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 4, Verse 12





    Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 5, Verse 14





    They crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open
 shame.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 6, Verse 6





    Without shedding of blood is no remission.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 9, Verse 22





    Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
 seen.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 11, Verse 1





    Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of
 witnesses . . . let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 12, Verse 1-2





    Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 12, Verse 6





    The spirits of just men made perfect.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 12, Verse 23





    Let brotherly love continue.
 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained
 angels unawares.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 13, Verse 1-2





    The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 13, Verse 6





    Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 13, Verse 8





    For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 13, Verse 14





    To do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is
 well pleased.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews Chapter 13, Verse 16





    Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire,
 wanting nothing.
 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of James Chapter 1, Verse 4-5





    Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he
 shall receive the crown of life.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of James Chapter 1, Verse 12





    Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down
 from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of
 turning.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of James Chapter 1, Verse 17





    Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of James Chapter 1, Verse 19-20





    Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of James Chapter 1, Verse 22

 1 See Homer




    Unspotted from the world.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of James Chapter 1, Verse 27





    As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead
 also.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of James Chapter 2, Verse 26





    How great a matter a little fire kindleth!

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of James Chapter 3, Verse 5





    The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of James Chapter 3, Verse 8





    This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of James Chapter 3, Verse 15





    Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of James Chapter 4, Verse 7





    What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time,
 and then vanisheth away.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of James Chapter 4, Verse 14





    Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the
 husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long
 patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of James Chapter 5, Verse 7





    Ye have heard of the patience of Job.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of James Chapter 5, Verse 11





    The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of James Chapter 5, Verse 16





    Hope to the end.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 1, Verse 13





    The Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every
 man's work.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 1, Verse 17





    All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
 The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. 1  2

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 1, Verse 24-25

 1 See Psalm 90:5-
 2 See Isaiah 40:6 and 40:8




    Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 2, Verse 11





    Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 2, Verse 17





    Ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 3, Verse 4





    Giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 3, Verse 7





    Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 4, Verse 8





    A crown of glory that fadeth not away.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 5, Verse 4





    Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring
 lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter 5, Verse 8





    And the day star arise in your hearts.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle General of Peter Chapter 1, Verse 19





    The dog is turned to his own vomit again.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Second Epistle General of Peter Chapter 2, Verse 22





    God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of John Chapter 1, Verse 5





    If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not
 in us.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of John Chapter 1, Verse 8





    If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
 righteous:
 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for
 the sins of the whole world.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of John Chapter 2, Verse 1-2





    He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of John Chapter 2, Verse 22





    Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and
 shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God
 in him?

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of John Chapter 3, Verse 17





    He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of John Chapter 4, Verse 8





    There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The First Epistle General of John Chapter 4, Verse 18





    Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to
 whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The General Epistle of Jude 13





    I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in
 the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called
 Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 1, Verse 9





    What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches
 which are in Asia.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 1, Verse 11





    And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 1, Verse 12





    His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his
 voice as the sound of many waters.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 1, Verse 15





    When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 1, Verse 17





    I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore,
 Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 1, Verse 18





    I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 2, Verse 4





    To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 2, Verse 7





    Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 2, Verse 10





    He shall rule them with a rod of iron.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 2, Verse 27





    I will give him the morning star.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 2, Verse 28





    I will not blot out his name out of the book of life.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 3, Verse 5





    I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert
 cold or hot.
 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew
 thee out of my mouth.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 3, Verse 15-16





    Behold, I stand at the door, and knock.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 3, Verse 20





    The first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and
 the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying
 eagle.
 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full
 of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy,
 Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 4, Verse 7-8





    Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were
 created.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 4, Verse 11





    A book . . . sealed with seven seals.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 5, Verse 1





    He went forth conquering, and to conquer.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 6, Verse 2





    Behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell
 followed with him.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 6, Verse 8





    Four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four
 winds of the earth.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 7, Verse 1





    Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 7, Verse 3





    All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 7, Verse 9





    These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their
 robes, and made them white in the blood of the lamb.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 7, Verse 14





    They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun
 light on them, nor any heat.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 7, Verse 16





    The name of the star is called Wormwood.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 8, Verse 11





    The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his
 Christ.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 11, Verse 15





    There was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the
 dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
 And prevailed not.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 12, Verse 7-8





    The great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and
 Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 12, Verse 9





    No man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the
 beast.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 13, Verse 17





    The voice of many waters. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 14, Verse 2

 1 See Psalm 93:4




    Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city. 1

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 14, Verse 8

 1 See Isaiah 21:9




    Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord . . . that they may rest from
 their labours.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 14, Verse 13





    And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue
 Armageddon.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 16, Verse 16





    He is Lord of lords, and King of kings.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 17, Verse 14





    He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 19, Verse 15





    Another book was opened, which is the book of life.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 20, Verse 12





    I saw a new heaven and a new earth: 1  for the first heaven and the first
 earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of
 heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 21, Verse 1-2

 1 See Isaiah 65:17




    God shall wipe away all tears 1  from their eyes; and there shall be no
 more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more
 pain: for the former things are passed away.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 21, Verse 4

 1 See Isaiah 25:8




    There shall be no night there.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 22, Verse 5





    He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let
 him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still:
 and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
 And, behold, I come quickly.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 22, Verse 11-12





    I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

 The Holy Bible, The New Testament
 The Revelation of St. John the Divine Chapter 22, Verse 13



 The Missal

    Dominus vobiscum [The Lord be with you].
 Et cum spiritu tuo [And with your spirit].

 The Missal
 Antiphon





    Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa [Through my fault, through my
 fault, through my most grievous fault].

 The Missal
 Confession of Sins





    Kyrie, eleison [Lord, have mercy on us].

 The Missal
 Kyrie





    Gloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis [Glory
 to God in the highest. And on earth peace to men of good will]. 1

 The Missal
 Gloria

 1 See Luke 2:14




    Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris: qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere
 nobis [O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father: who takes away the sins
 of the world, have mercy on us]. 1

 The Missal
 Gloria

 1 See John 1:29




    Hoc est enim Corpus meum [For this is My Body]. 1  2

 The Missal
 The Consecration

 1 See Matthew 26:26
 2 See I Corinthians 11:24




    Hic est enim Calix Sanguinis mei, novi et aeterni testamenti: mysterium
 fidei: qui pro vobis et pro multis effundetur in remissionem peccatorum [For
 this is the chalice of My Blood, of the new and eternal covenant; the
 mystery of faith; which shall be shed for you and for many unto the
 forgiveness of sins]. 1  2

 The Missal
 The Consecration

 1 See Matthew 26:27-9
 2 See I Corinthians 11:25




    O felix culpa, quae talem ac tantum meruit habere Redemptorem [O happy
 fault, which has deserved to have such and so mighty a Redeemer].

 The Missal
 Exsultet on Holy Saturday



 The Book of Common Prayer





















    The Scripture moveth us, in sundry places, to acknowledge and confess our
 manifold sins and wickedness.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,Minister's Opening Words, p. 5





    We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. 1

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,A General Confession, p. 6

 1 See Isaiah 53:6




    We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have
 done those things which we ought not to have done.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,A General Confession, p. 6





    Have mercy upon us, miserable offenders.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,A General Confession, p. 6





    Who desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from
 his wickedness and live.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,The Declaration of Absolution, p. 7





    Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and show ourselves
 glad in him with psalms. 1  2

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,Venite, p. 9

 1 See Psalm 95:1-
 2 See Ephesians 5:19




    In his hand are all the corners of the earth; and the strength of the
 hills is his also.
 The sea is his, and he made it; and his hands prepared the dry land.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,Venite, p. 9





    Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
 As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
 Amen.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,Gloria Patri, p. 9





    We praise thee, O God [Te deum laudamus].

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,Te Deum, p. 10





    The noble army of Martyrs.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,Te Deum, p. 10





    I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:
 And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord: Who was conceived by the Holy
 Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary: Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was
 crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell; The third day he rose
 again from the dead: He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand
 of God the Father Almighty: From thence he shall come to judge the quick and
 the dead.
 I believe in the Holy Ghost: The holy Catholic Church; The Communion of
 Saints: The Forgiveness of sins: The Resurrection of the body: And the Life
 everlasting.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,Apostles' Creed, p. 15





    Begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light,
 Very God of very God; Begotten, not made; Being of one substance with the
 Father; By whom all things were made: Who for us men and for our salvation
 came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin
 Mary, And was made man.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,Nicene Creed, p. 16





    O God, who art the author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of
 whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom; Defend us
 thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,A Collect for Peace, p. 17





    O God, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee
 for all sorts and conditions of men; that thou wouldest be pleased to make
 thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,A Prayer for All Conditions of Men,p. 18





    We commend to thy fatherly goodness all those who are any ways afflicted,
 or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,A Prayer for All Conditions of Men,p. 19





    We, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks
 for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men; We bless
 thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but
 above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our
 Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,A General Thanksgiving, p. 19





    Almighty God, who . . . dost promise that when two or three are gathered
 together in thy Name 1  thou wilt grant their requests; Fulfill now, O Lord,
 the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for
 them.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Morning Prayer,A Prayer of St. Chrysostom, p. 20

 1 See Matthew 18:20




    Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy
 defend us from all perils and dangers of this night.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Evening Prayer, A Collect for Aid against Perils, p. 31





    From all blindness of heart, from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy; from
 envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness,
 Good Lord, deliver us.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 The Litany,p. 54





    From all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 The Litany,p. 54





    From battle and murder, and from sudden death.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 The Litany,p. 54





    Give to all nations unity, peace, and concord.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 The Litany,p. 56





    The kindly fruits of the earth.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 The Litany,p. 57





    Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from
 whom no secrets are hid; Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the
 inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and
 worthily magnify thy holy Name.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Holy Communion,The Collect, p. 67





    Ye who do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins, and are in love
 and charity with your neighbors, and intend to lead a new life.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Holy Communion,To those who come to receive the Holy Communion, p. 75





    We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, Which we,
 from time to time, most grievously have committed, By thought, word, and
 deed, Against thy Divine Majesty, Provoking most justly thy wrath and
 indignation against us. We do earnestly repent, And are heartily sorry for
 these our misdoings; The remembrance of them is grievous unto us; The burden
 of them is intolerable.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Holy Communion,General Confession, p. 75





    Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven,
 we laud and magnify thy glorious Name; evermore praising thee.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Holy Communion,Proper Preface, p. 77





    And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls
 and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee. 1

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Holy Communion,The Invocation, p. 81

 1 See Romans 12:1




    The Peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and
 minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our
 Lord.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Holy Communion,Blessing, p. 84





    Miserable sinners.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Holy Communion,The Exhortations, p. 86





    Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest [the Scriptures].

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 The Second Sunday in Advent. The Collect, p. 92





    Dost thou, therefore, in the name of this Child, renounce the devil and
 all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous
 desires of the same, and the sinful desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt
 not follow, nor be led by them?

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Holy Baptism. To the Godfathers and Godmothers, p. 276





    An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Offices of Instruction, Questions on the Sacraments, p. 292





    Is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently,
 discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Solemnization of Matrimony,p. 300





    If any man can show just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined
 together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Solemnization of Matrimony,p. 300





    Wilt thou . . . forsaking all others, keep thee only unto [him; her], so
 long as ye both shall live?

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Solemnization of Matrimony,p. 301





    To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for
 richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till
 death us do part.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Solemnization of Matrimony,p. 301





    With this Ring I thee wed.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Solemnization of Matrimony,p. 302





    Those whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder. 1

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Solemnization of Matrimony,p. 303

 1 See Matthew 19:6




    In the midst of life we are in death.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Burial of the Dead,p. 332





    Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of
 the Resurrection unto eternal life.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 Burial of the Dead,p. 333





    The iron entered into his soul.

 The Book of Common Prayer, 1928
 The Psalter, Psalm 105:18, p. 471



 The Book of Common Prayer

    Give peace in our time, O Lord.

 The Book of Common Prayer, English
 Morning Prayer, Versicles





    Grant that the old Adam in this Child may be so buried, that the new man
 may be raised up in him.

 The Book of Common Prayer, English
 Public Baptism of Infants, Blessing on the Child





    To love, cherish, and to obey.

 The Book of Common Prayer, English
 Solemnization of Matrimony





    With all my worldly goods I thee endow.

 The Book of Common Prayer, English
 Solemnization of Matrimony



 The Upanishads
 800-500  B.C.
 

    Thou art that.

 The Upanishads
 Chandogya Upanishad, 6.8.7, etc.





    Lead me from the unreal to the real!
 Lead me from darkness to light!
 Lead me from death to immortality!

 The Upanishads
 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad,1.3.28





    Not thus, not thus.

 The Upanishads
 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad,2.3.6





    This Self is the honey of all beings, and all beings are the honey of
 this Self.

 The Upanishads
 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad,2.5.14





    The gods love the obscure and hate the obvious.

 The Upanishads
 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad,4.2.2





    Da da da (that is) Be subdued, Give, Be merciful.

 The Upanishads
 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad,5.2.3





 If the slayer thinks he slays,
 If the slain thinks he is slain,
 Both these do not understand:
 He slays not, is not slain.

 The Upanishads
 Katha Upanishad, 2.19





    Om.

 The Upanishads
 Passim





    Shanti.

 The Upanishads
 Passim



 Homer

 c. 700  B.C.


    Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles, a destroying wrath
 which brought upon the Achaeans myriad woes, and sent forth to Hades many
 valiant souls of heroes.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.I,l. 1





    And the plan of Zeus was being accomplished.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.I,l. 5





    A dream, too, is from Zeus.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.I,l. 63





    He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things
 that had been before.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.I,l. 70





    If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.I,l. 178





    Speaking, he addressed her winged words.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.I,l. 201





    Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.I,l. 218





    From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.I,l. 249





    Rosy-fingered dawn appeared, the early-born. 1

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.I,l. 477 and elsewhere

 1 See Milton




    The son of Kronos [Zeus] spoke, and nodded with his darkish brows, and
 immortal locks fell forward from the lord's deathless head, and he made
 great Olympus tremble.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.I,l. 528





    The Olympian is a difficult foe to oppose.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.I,l. 589





    Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.I,l. 599





    A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the
 populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.II,l. 24





    Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings-their honor comes from Zeus,
 and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.II,l. 196





    A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one
 king.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.II,l. 204





    He [Thersites] was the ugliest man who came to Ilium.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.II,l. 216





    I could not tell nor name the multitude, not even if I had ten tongues,
 ten mouths, not if I had a voice unwearying and a heart of bronze were in
 me. 1

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.II,l. 488

 1 See Virgil




    Yet with his powers of augury he [Chromis] did not save himself from dark
 death.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.II,l. 859





    The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.III,l. 65





    Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned
 in a matter, he looks both before and after.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.III,l. 108





    Like cicadas, which sit upon a tree in the forest and pour out their
 piping voices, so the leaders of the Trojans were sitting on the tower.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.III,l. 151





    There is no reason to blame the Trojans and the well-greaved Achaeans
 that for such a woman they long suffer woes.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.III,l. 156





    Words like winter snowflakes.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.III,l. 222





    The sun, which sees all things and hears all things.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.III,l. 277





    Son of Atreus, what manner of speech has escaped the barrier of your
 teeth?

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.IV,l. 350





    Far away in the mountains a shepherd hears their thundering.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.IV,l. 455





    He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children
 prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread
 fray. 1

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.V,l. 407

 1 See Thomas Gray




    Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men
 who walk upon the earth. 1

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.V,l. 441

 1 See Xenophanes




    Great-hearted Stentor with brazen voice, who could shout as loud as fifty
 other men.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.V,l. 785





    He was a wealthy man, and kindly to his fellow men; for dwelling in a
 house by the side of the road, he used to entertain all comers.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.VI,l. 14





    A generation of men is like a generation of leaves: the wind scatters
 some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings
 forth-and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs
 forth and another ceases. 1  2  3

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.VI,l. 146

 1 See The Teaching for Merikare
 2 See Pindar
 3 See Aristophanes




    Always to be bravest and to be preeminent above others.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.VI,l. 208





    Victory shifts from man to man.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.VI,l. 339





    May men say, "He is far greater than his father," when he returns from
 battle.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.VI,l. 479





    Smiling through tears.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.VI,l. 484





    Attach a golden chain from heaven, and all of you take hold of it, you
 gods and goddesses, yet would you not be able to drag Zeus the most high
 from heaven to earth.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.VIII,l. 19





    Hades is relentless and unyielding.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.IX,l. 158





    Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in
 his heart and speaks another.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.IX,l. 312





    Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who
 lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave
 man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.IX,l. 318





    To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. 1

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.IX,l. 443

 1 See James 1:22




    Prayers are the daughters of mighty Zeus, lame and wrinkled and
 slanting-eyed.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.IX,l. 502





    A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XI,l. 793





    It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not
 last for long.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XII,l. 8





    The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XII,l. 243





    There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XIII,l. 237





    There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and of love.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XIII,l. 636





    You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself,
 for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to
 another the lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good
 mind.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XIII,l. 729





    It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XIII,l. 787





    She [Aphrodite] spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle
 of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love
 and in it desire and in it blandishing persuasion which steals the mind even
 of the wise.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XIV,l. 214





    There she met sleep, the brother of death.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XIV,l. 231and XVI, l. 672





    Ocean, who is the source of all.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XIV,l. 246





    The hearts of the noble may be turned [by entreaty].

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XV,l. 203





    It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. 1


 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XV,l. 496

 1 See Horace




    Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain,
 but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XV,l. 563





    The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the
 council.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XVI,l. 630





    But he, mighty man, lay mightily in the whirl of dust, forgetful of his
 horsemanship.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XVI,l. 775





    Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XVII,l. 32





    The most preferable of evils.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XVII,l. 105





    Surely there is nothing more wretched than a man, of all the things which
 breathe and move upon the earth. 1

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XVII,l. 446

 1 See Aristophanes




    Sweeter it [wrath] is by far than the honeycomb dripping with sweetness,
 and spreads through the hearts of men.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XVIII,l. 109





    I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble
 renown.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XVIII,l. 120





    Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XVIII,l. 328





    The Erinyes, who exact punishment of men underground if one swears a
 false oath.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XIX,l. 259





    Not even Achilles will bring all his words to fulfillment.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XX,l. 369





    Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating
 the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XXI,l. 463





    It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by
 the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame
 the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the
 most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XXII,l. 71





    Then the father held out the golden scales, and in them he placed two
 fates of dread death.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XXII,l. 209





    There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no
 concord.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XXII,l. 262





    By the ships there lies a dead man, unwept, unburied: Patroclus. 1  2  3
 4  5  6

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XXII,l. 386

 1 See Horace
 2 See Chaucer
 3 See Shakespeare
 4 See Milton
 5 See Scott
 6 See Byron




    Remembering this, he wept bitterly, lying now on his side, now on his
 back, now on his face.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XXIV,l. 9





    The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XXIV,l. 49





    Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live
 in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the
 floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of
 blessings.

 Homer
 The Iliad, bk.XXIV,l. 525





    Tell me, muse, of the man of many resources 1  who wandered far and wide
 after he sacked the holy citadel of Troy, and he saw the cities and learned
 the thoughts of many men, and on the sea he suffered in his heart many woes.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.I,l. 1

 1 See Pope




    By their own follies they perished, the fools.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.I,l. 7





    Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come
 from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of
 their own follies.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.I,l. 32





    Surely these things lie on the knees of the gods.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.I,l. 267





    You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that
 age. 1

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.I,l. 296

 1 See I Corinthians 13:11




    For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few
 are better than their fathers.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.II,l. 276





    Gray-eyed Athena sent them a favorable breeze, a fresh west wind, singing
 over the wine-dark sea.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.II,l. 420





    A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.III,l. 24





    All men have need of the gods.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.III,l. 48





    The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.III,l. 147





    A small rock holds back a great wave.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.III,l. 296





    No mortal could vie with Zeus, for his mansions and his possessions are
 deathless.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.IV,l. 78





    She [Helen] threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which
 takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.IV,l. 220





    The immortals will send you to the Elysian plain at the ends of the
 earth, where fair-haired Rhadamanthys is. There life is supremely easy for
 men. No snow is there, nor ever heavy winter storm, nor rain, and Ocean is
 ever sending gusts of the clear-blowing west wind to bring coolness to men.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.IV,l. 563





    Olympus, where they say there is an abode of the gods, ever unchanging:
 it is neither shaken by winds nor ever wet with rain, nor does snow come
 near it, but clear weather spreads cloudless about it, and a white radiance
 stretches above it.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.VI,l. 42





    May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they
 give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing
 greater and better than this-when a husband and wife keep a household in
 oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and
 win high renown.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.VI,l. 180





    All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is
 precious. 1

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.VI,l. 207

 1 See Theocritus




    Their ships are swift as a bird or a thought.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.VII,l. 36





    We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.VII,l. 307





    So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace-neither good
 looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.VIII,l. 167





    Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.VIII,l. 329





    Even if you gods, and all the goddesses too, should be looking on, yet
 would I be glad to sleep with golden Aphrodite.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.VIII,l. 341





    Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence,
 because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.VIII,l. 479





    Thus she spoke; and I longed to embrace my dead mother's ghost. Thrice I
 tried to clasp her image, and thrice it slipped through my hands, like a
 shadow, like a dream. 1

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 204

 1 See Virgil




    They strove to pile Ossa on Olympus, and on Ossa Pelion with its leafy
 forests, that they might scale the heavens.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 315





    There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. 1

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 379

 1 See Ecclesiastes 3:7




    There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans
 such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she
 contrived her husband's murder.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 427





    In the extravagance of her evil she has brought shame both on herself and
 on all women who will come after her, even on one who is virtuous.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 432





    Therefore don't you be gentle to your wife either. Don't tell her
 everything you know, but tell her one thing and keep another thing hidden. 1


 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 441

 1 See Fuller




    There is no more trusting in women.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 456





    I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without
 fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed
 dead.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XI,l. 489





    Friends, we have not till now been unacquainted with misfortunes.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XII,l. 208





    It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told. 1

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XII,l. 452

 1 See Shakespeare




    The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to
 singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth
 words which were better unspoken.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XIV,l. 463





    It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep
 one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send
 forth the one who wishes to go. 1

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XV,l. 72

 1 See Pope




    Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he
 wrought and endured. 1

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XV,l. 400

 1 See Virgil




    God always pairs off like with like.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XVII,l. 218





    Bad herdsmen ruin their flocks.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XVII,l. 246





    Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery
 comes upon him.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XVII,l. 322





    Then dark death seized Argus, as soon as he had seen Odysseus in the
 twentieth year.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XVII,l. 326





    The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various
 disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness
 of men.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XVII,l. 485





    Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things
 which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never
 suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he
 flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to
 pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the
 thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men
 brings upon them.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XVIII,l. 130





    Men flourish only for a moment. 1

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XIX,l. 328

 1 See Psalm 103:15




    Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is
 brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is
 fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn
 ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which
 issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees
 them. 1

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XIX,l. 560

 1 See Virgil




    Endure, my heart: you once endured something even more dreadful.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XX,l. 18





    Your heart is always harder than a stone.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XXIII,l. 103





    Therefore the fame of her excellence will never perish, and the immortals
 will fashion among earthly men a gracious song in honor of faithful
 Penelope.

 Homer
 The Odyssey, bk.XXIV,l. 196



 Hesiod

 c. 700  B.C.


    With the muses of Helicon let us begin our singing.

 Hesiod
 The Theogonyl. 1





    They once taught Hesiod beauteous song, when he was shepherding his sheep
 below holy Helicon.

 Hesiod
 The Theogonyl. 22





    We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we
 know, when we will, how to speak true things.

 Hesiod
 The Theogonyl. 27





    On his tongue they pour sweet dew, and from his mouth flow gentle words.
 1

 Hesiod
 The Theogonyl. 83

 1 See Coleridge




    Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs,
 overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and
 all men.

 Hesiod
 The Theogonyl. 120





    From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.

 Hesiod
 The Theogonyl. 910





    There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on the earth there
 are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but
 the other is blameworthy.

 Hesiod
 Works and Daysl. 11





    Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman,
 and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard. 1  2

 Hesiod
 Works and Daysl. 25

 1 See Gay
 2 See Meredith




    Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole. 1

 Hesiod
 Works and Daysl. 40

 1 See Browning




    Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

 Hesiod
 Works and Daysl. 240





    He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most
 harmful to the planner.

 Hesiod
 Works and Daysl. 265





    Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies
 close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and
 long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to
 the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard. 1

 Hesiod
 Works and Daysl. 287

 1 See Matthew 7:13-4




    A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great
 blessing.

 Hesiod
 Works and Daysl. 346





    Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

 Hesiod
 Works and Daysl. 352





    If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often,
 soon this too would become big. 1  2

 Hesiod
 Works and Daysl. 361

 1 See Chaucer
 2 See Cervantes




    At the beginning of a cask and at the end take your fill; in the middle
 be sparing.

 Hesiod
 Works and Daysl. 368





    The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

 Hesiod
 Works and Daysl. 579





    Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important
 factor.

 Hesiod
 Works and Daysl. 694





    Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and
 hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice
 it: it too is a kind of divinity.

 Hesiod
 Works and Daysl. 761



 Archilochus

 Early seventh century  B.C.


    I have saved myself-what care I for that shield? Away with it! I'll get
 another one no worse.

 Archilochus
 Fragment 6





    Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

 Archilochus
 Fragment 27





    The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one great thing.

 Archilochus
 Fragment 103



 Mimnermus

 c. 650 - c. 590  B.C.


    What life is there, what delight, without golden Aphrodite?

 Mimnermus
 Fragment 1



 The Seven Sages
 c. 650 - c. 550  B.C.
 

    Know thyself.

 The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus,
 Solon, Thales
 Inscription at the Delphic Oracle. From Plutarch, Morals





    Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

 The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus,
 Solon, Thales
 Periander.From Plutarch,
 The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, sec. 14





    Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he
 is very happy who hath this only.

 The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus,
 Solon, Thales
 Pittacus.From Plutarch,
 Morals, On the Tranquillity of the Mind





    Nothing too much. 1  2  3  4  5

 The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus,
 Solon, Thales
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. I, sec.63

 1 See Terence
 2 See Horace
 3 See Lucan
 4 See Anonymous Latin
 5 See Voltaire




    Do not speak ill of the dead.

 The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus,
 Solon, Thales
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. I, sec.70





    Not even the gods fight against necessity. 1

 The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus,
 Solon, Thales
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. I, sec.77

 1 See Euripides




    Know the right moment.

 The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus,
 Solon, Thales
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. I, sec.79





    Rule will show the man.

 The Seven Sages, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus,
 Solon, Thales
 Bias.From Aristotle,
 Nicomachean Ethics, bk. V, ch. 1



 Solon

 c. 638 - c. 559  B.C.


    Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with
 them our excellence for riches.

 Solon
 Fragment 4





    Poets tell many lies.

 Solon
 Fragment 21





    I grow old ever learning many things. 1

 Solon
 Fragment 22

 1 See Plato




    Speech is the image of actions.

 Solon
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. I, sec. 58





    Let us sacrifice to the Muses.

 Solon
 From Plutarch, The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men





    Until he is dead, do not yet call a man happy, but only lucky. 1  2  3

 Solon
 From Herodotus,
 bk. I, ch. 32

 1 See Ecclesiasticus 11:28
 2 See Aeschylus
 3 See Sophocles


 Stesichorus

 c. 630 - c. 555  B.C.


    This tale is not true: you [Helen] did not even board the well-benched
 ships, and you did not go to the citadel of Troy.

 Stesichorus
 Fragment 11



 Alcaeus

 c. 625 - c. 575  B.C.


    Wine, dear boy, and truth.

 Alcaeus
 Fragment 66





    Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

 Alcaeus
 Fragment 104





    Let us run into a safe harbor.

 Alcaeus
 Fragment 120



 Anacharsis

 fl. c. 600  B.C.


    On learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick] The
 passengers are just that distance from death.

 Anacharsis
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Anacharsis, 5





    Anacharsis] laughed at him [Solon] for imagining the dishonesty and
 covetousness of his countrymen could be restrained by written laws, which
 were like spiders' webs, and would catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but
 easily be broken by the mighty and rich. 1  2

 Anacharsis
 From Plutarch, Lives, Life of Solon

 1 See Zincgref
 2 See Swift




    In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

 Anacharsis
 From Plutarch, Lives, Life of Solon



 Sappho

 c. 612  B.C.
 

    Deathless Aphrodite on your rich-wrought throne.

 Sappho
 Fragment 1





    Equal to the gods seems to me that man who sits facing you and hears you
 nearby sweetly speaking and softly laughing. This sets my heart to
 fluttering in my breast, for when I look on you a moment, then can I speak
 no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses
 beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a cold
 sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over, and I am paler than
 grass, and I feel that I am near to death. 1

 Sappho
 Fragment 2

 1 See Catullus




    The stars about the lovely moon hide their shining forms when it lights
 up the earth at its fullest.

 Sappho
 Fragment 4





    I loved you once long ago, Athis . . . you seemed to me a small, ungainly
 child.

 Sappho
 Fragments 40-41





    The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and
 I sleep alone. 1

 Sappho
 Fragment 94

 1 See Housman




    Sweet mother, I cannot ply the loom, vanquished by desire for a youth
 through the work of soft Aphrodite.

 Sappho
 Fragment 114





    As an apple reddens on the high bough; high atop the highest bough the
 apple pickers passed it by-no, not passed it by, but they could not reach
 it.

 Sappho
 Fragment 116





    Hesperus, you herd homeward whatever Dawn's light dispersed: you herd
 sheep-herd goats-herd children home to their mothers.

 Sappho
 Fragment 120



 Lao-tzu

 c. 604 - c. 531  B.C.
 

 The Tao [Way] that can be told of is not the eternal Tao;
 The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
 The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth;
 The Named is the mother of all things.
 Therefore let there always be non-being, so we may see their subtlety,
 And let there always be being, so we may see their outcome.
 The two are the same,
 But after they are produced, they have different names.
 They both may be called deep and profound.
 Deeper and more profound,
 The door of all subtleties!

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu1





 When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
 There arises the recognition of ugliness.
 When they all know the good as good,
 There arises the recognition of evil.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu2





 In the government of the sage,
 He keeps their hearts vacuous,
 Fills their bellies,
 Weakens their ambitions,
 And strengthens their bones,
 He always causes his people to be without knowledge [cunning] or desire,
 And the crafty to be afraid to act.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu3





 Heaven and Earth are not humane.
 They regard all things as straw dogs.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu5





 The spirit of the valley never dies.
 It is called the subtle and profound female.
 The gate of the subtle and profound female
 Is the root of Heaven and Earth.
 It is continuous, and seems to be always existing.
 Use it and you will never wear it out.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu6





 The best [man] is like water.
 Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
 It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.
 This is why it is so near to Tao.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu8





 To produce things and to rear them,
 To produce, but not to take possession of them,
 To act, but not to rely on one's own ability,
 To lead them, but not to master them-
 This is called profound and secret virtue.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu10





 He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu13





 We look at it [Tao] and do not see it;
 Its name is The Invisible.
 We listen to it and do not hear it;
 Its name is The Inaudible.
 We touch it and do not find it;
 Its name is The Subtle [formless].

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu14





 It is The Vague and Elusive.
 Meet it and you will not see its head.
 Follow it and you will not see its back.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu14





 Manifest plainness,
 Embrace simplicity,
 Reduce selfishness,
 Have few desires.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu19





 Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu20





 To yield is to be preserved whole.
 To be bent is to become straight.
 To be empty is to be full.
 To be worn out is to be renewed.
 To have little is to possess.
 To have plenty is to be perplexed. 1

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu22

 1 See the Beatitudes, Matthew 5:3-1




 He who knows others is wise;
 He who knows himself is enlightened.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu33





 [The sage] never strives himself for the great, and thereby the great is
 achieved.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu34





 Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.
 Reversion is the action of Tao.
 Weakness is the function of Tao.
 All things in the world come from being.
 And being comes from non-being.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu40





 When the highest type of men hear Tao,
 They diligently practice it.
 When the average type of men hear Tao,
 They half believe in it.
 When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
 They laugh heartily at it.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu41





 The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
 Non-being penetrates that in which there is no space.
 Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu43





 There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
 There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
 And there is no greater disaster than greed.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu46





 One may know the world without going out of doors.
 One may see the Way of Heaven without looking through the windows.
 The further one goes, the less one knows.
 Therefore the sage knows without going about,
 Understands without seeing,
 And accomplishes without any action.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu47





 He who possesses virtue in abundance
 May be compared to an infant.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu55





 He who knows does not speak.
 He who speaks does not know.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu56





 The more laws and order are made prominent,
 The more thieves and robbers there will be.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu57





 Ruling a big country is like cooking a small fish.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu60





 Tao is the storehouse of all things.
 It is the good man's treasure and the bad man's refuge.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu62





 A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu64





 People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu65





 I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:
 The first is deep love,
 The second is frugality,
 And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.
 Because of deep love, one is courageous.
 Because of frugality, one is generous.
 Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of
 the world.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu67





 When armies are mobilized and issues joined,
 The man who is sorry over the fact will win.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu69





 To know that you do not know is the best.
 To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. 1

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu71

 1 See Confucius




 Heaven's net is indeed vast.
 Though its meshes are wide, it misses nothing. 1

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu73

 1 See Matthew 13:47




 To undertake executions for the master executioner [Heaven] is like hewing
 wood for the master carpenter.
 Whoever undertakes to hew wood for the master carpenter rarely escapes
 injuring his own hands.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu74





 The Way of Heaven has no favorites.
 It is always with the good man.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu79





 Let there be a small country with few people. . . .
 Though neighboring communities overlook one another and the crowing of cocks
 and barking of dogs can be heard,
 Yet the people there may grow old and die without ever visiting one another.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu80





 True words are not beautiful;
 Beautiful words are not true.
 A good man does not argue;
 He who argues is not a good man.
 A wise man has no extensive knowledge;
 He who has extensive knowledge is not a wise man. 1  2  3  4  5  6
 The sage does not accumulate for himself.
 The more he uses for others, the more he has himself.
 The more he gives to others, the more he possesses of his own.
 The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.
 The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

 Lao-tzu
 The Way of Lao-tzu81

 1 See Confucius
 2 See Heraclitus
 3 See Chaucer
 4 See Selden
 5 See Penn
 6 See Newman


 Pythagoras

 c. 582-500  B.C.


    Friends share all things. 1  2

 Pythagoras
 From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers,
 bk. VIII, sec.10

 1 See Plato
 2 See Sallust




    Don't eat your heart.

 Pythagoras
 From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers,
 bk. VIII, sec.17





    Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

 Pythagoras
 From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers,
 bk. VIII, sec.30





    The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to
 good or to evil.

 Pythagoras
 From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers,
 bk. VIII, sec.32



 Ibycus

 c. 580  B.C.
 

    There is no medicine to be found for a life which has fled.

 Ibycus
 Fragment 23





    An argument needs no reason, nor a friendship.

 Ibycus
 Fragment 40



 Aesop

 fl. c. 550  B.C.
 

    The lamb . . . began to follow the wolf in sheep's clothing.

 Aesop
 The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing





    Appearances often are deceiving.

 Aesop
 The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing





    Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

 Aesop
 The Milkmaid and Her Pail





    I am sure the grapes are sour.

 Aesop
 The Fox and the Grapes





    No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

 Aesop
 The Lion and the Mouse





    Slow and steady wins the race.

 Aesop
 The Hare and the Tortoise





    Familiarity breeds contempt. 1

 Aesop
 The Fox and the Lion

 1 See Mark Twain




    The boy cried "Wolf, wolf!" and the villagers came out to help him.

 Aesop
 The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf





    A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. 1

 Aesop
 The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

 1 See Proverbs 15:17




    Borrowed plumes.

 Aesop
 The Jay and the Peacock





    It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

 Aesop
 The Jay and the Peacock





    Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.

 Aesop
 The Frog and the Ox





    People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

 Aesop
 The Dog in the Manger





    It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

 Aesop
 The Ant 1  and the Grasshopper

 1 See Proverbs 6:6-




    Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

 Aesop
 Juno and the Peacock
  1

 1 See Sean O'Casey




    A huge gap appeared in the side of the mountain. At last a tiny mouse
 came forth.

 Aesop
 The Mountain in Labor





    Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

 Aesop
 The Wolf and the Lamb





    Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

 Aesop
 The Dog and the Shadow





    Who shall bell the cat?

 Aesop
 The Rats and the Cat





    I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the
 same breath.

 Aesop
 The Man and the Satyr





    Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it
 and opened it only to find-nothing.

 Aesop
 The Goose with the Golden Eggs





    Put your shoulder to the wheel.

 Aesop
 Hercules and the Wagoner





    The gods help them that help themselves.

 Aesop
 Hercules and the Wagoner





    We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

 Aesop
 The Old Man and Death





    Union gives strength. 1

 Aesop
 The Bundle of Sticks

 1 See John Dickinson




    While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier
 to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

 Aesop
 The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts





    The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own
 plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

 Aesop
 The Eagle and the Arrow



 Theognis

 fl. c. 545  B.C.


    One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a
 man's companions are very few.

 Theognis
 Elegiesl. 115





    Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men
 comes the gift of excellence.

 Theognis
 Elegiesl. 149





    Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

 Theognis
 Elegiesl. 153





    Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the
 appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a
 different hue.

 Theognis
 Elegiesl. 215





    The best of all things for earthly men is not to be born and not to see
 the beams of the bright sun; but if born, then as quickly as possible to
 pass the gates of Hades, and to lie deep buried. 1  2  3  4

 Theognis
 Elegiesl. 425

 1 See Sophocles
 2 See Bacon
 3 See Yeats
 4 See Auden




    No man takes with him to Hades all his exceeding wealth. 1  2  3  4

 Theognis
 Elegiesl. 725

 1 See The Song of the Harper
 2 See Ecclesiastes 5:15
 3 See I Timothy 6:7
 4 See Kaufman




    Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

 Theognis
 Elegiesl. 985



 Anacreon

 c. 570 - c. 480  B.C.


    Bring water, bring wine, boy! Bring flowering garlands to me! Yes, bring
 them, so that I may try a bout with love.

 Anacreon
 Fragment 27





    I both love and do not love, and am mad and am not mad. 1

 Anacreon
 Fragment 79

 1 See Catullus




    War spares not the brave, but the cowardly. 1

 Anacreon
 Fragment 101. From The Palatine Anthology, VII, 160

 1 See Sophocles


 Hipponax

 c. 570-520  B.C.


    There are two days when a woman is a pleasure: the day one marries her
 and the day one buries her.

 Hipponax
 Fragment



 Xenophanes

 c. 570 - c. 475  B.C.


    Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods everything that is a shame and a
 reproach among men.

 Xenophanes
 Fragment 11





    If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with
 their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms
 of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods'
 bodies the same shape as their own. 1

 Xenophanes
 Fragment 15

 1 See Montesquieu




    One god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape
 nor even in thought. 1

 Xenophanes
 Fragment 23

 1 See Homer




    It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

 Xenophanes
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Xenophanes, IX



 Simonides

 c. 556-468  B.C.


    It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind,
 formed without blemish.

 Simonides
 Fragment 4





    The city is the teacher of the man.

 Simonides
 Fragment 53





    Fighting in the forefront of the Greeks, the Athenians crushed at
 Marathon the might of the gold-bearing Medes.

 Simonides
 Fragment 88





 Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,
 That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

 Simonides
 Fragment 92





 If to die honorably is the greatest
 Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best.
 Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom
 We lie here enjoying timeless fame. 1  2  3

 Simonides
 For the Athenian Dead at Plataia

 1 See Pindar
 2 See Thucydides
 3 See Brandeis




 We did not flinch but gave our lives to save
 Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

 Simonides
 Cenotaph at the Isthmos





    Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.

 Simonides
 From Plutarch, De Gloria Atheniensium, III, 346



 Confucius

 551-479  B.C.


    Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true
 virtue.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.1:3





    A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his
 elders.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.1:6





    If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as
 sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can
 exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his
 life; if, in his intercourse with his friends, his words are
 sincere-although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that
 he has.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.1:7





    Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.1:8, ii





    Have no friends not equal to yourself.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.1:8, iii





    When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.1:8, iv





    He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the
 north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.2:1





    [The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according
 to his actions.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.2:13





    Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is
 perilous. 1  2  3  4  5  6

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.2:15

 1 See Lao-tzu
 2 See Heraclitus
 3 See Chaucer
 4 See Selden
 5 See Penn
 6 See Newman




    When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know
 a thing, to allow that you do not know it-this is knowledge. 1

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.2:17

 1 See Lao-tzu




    Things that are done, it is needless to speak about . . . things that are
 past, it is needless to blame.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.3:21, ii





    I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not
 virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.4:6, i





    If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening
 without regret.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.4:8





    The superior man . . . does not set his mind either for anything, or
 against anything; what is right he will follow.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.4:10





    When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see
 men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.4:17





    The cautious seldom err.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.4:23





    Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have
 neighbors.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.4:25





    Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness, and yet live,
 his escape from death is the effect of mere good fortune.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.6:16





    The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business,
 and success only a subsequent consideration.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.6:20





    With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a
 pillow-I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors
 acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud. 1  2

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.7:15

 1 See Amenemope
 2 See Proverbs 15:16-7




    I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is
 fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.7:19





    Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at
 hand.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.7:29





    The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full
 of distress.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.7:36





    The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be
 made to understand it.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.8:9





    While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the
 dead]? . . . While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.11:11





    To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.11:15, iii





    He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor
 statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be
 called intelligent indeed.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.12:6





    In carrying on your government, why should you use killing [the
 unprincipled for the good of the unprincipled] at all? Let your evinced
 desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation
 between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass.
 The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.12:19





    Good government obtains when those who are near are made happy, and those
 who are far off are attracted.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.13:16, ii





    The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.13:27





    The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a
 scholar.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.14:3





    The man who in the view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view
 of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old
 agreement however far back it extends-such a man may be reckoned a complete
 man.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.14:13, ii





    He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words
 good.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.14:21





    The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.14:29





    Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.14:36, iii





    The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the
 expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to
 preserve their virtue complete.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.15:8





    If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near
 at hand.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.15:11





    The superior man is distressed by his want of ability.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.15:18





    What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in
 others.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.15:20





    What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. 1  2

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.15:23

 1 See Matthew 7:12
 2 See Aristotle




    When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not
 sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose
 again.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.15:32, i





    The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be
 entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great
 concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.15:33





    Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from
 treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading
 the course of virtue.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.15:34





    By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.17:2





    To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes
 perfect virtue. . . . [They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity,
 earnestness, and kindness.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.17:6





    There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth .
 . . lust. When he is strong . . . quarrelsomeness. When he is old . . .
 covetousness.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.17:8





    Without recognizing the ordinances of Heaven, it is impossible to be a
 superior man.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.20:3, i





    Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for
 the character to be established.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.20:3, ii





    Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

 Confucius
 The Confucian Analects,
 bk.20:3, iii



 Heraclitus

 c. 540 - c. 480  B.C.


    All is flux, nothing stays still. 1

 Heraclitus
 From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers,
 bk. IX, sec. 8, and Plato, Cratylus, 402A

 1 See Tyndall




    Nothing endures but change. 1  2  3  4

 Heraclitus
 From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers,
 bk. IX, sec. 8, and Plato, Cratylus, 402A

 1 See Racan
 2 See Swift
 3 See Shelley
 4 See Wilde




    It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all
 things are one.

 Heraclitus
 On the Universe, fragment1





    Nature is wont to hide herself.

 Heraclitus
 On the Universe, fragment10





    Much learning does not teach understanding. 1  2  3  4  5  6

 Heraclitus
 On the Universe, fragment16

 1 See Lao-tzu
 2 See Confucius
 3 See Chaucer
 4 See Selden
 5 See Penn
 6 See Newman




    This world . . . ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in
 measures being kindled and in measures going out.

 Heraclitus
 On the Universe, fragment20





    God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and
 hunger.

 Heraclitus
 On the Universe, fragment36





    You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever
 flowing on to you.

 Heraclitus
 On the Universe, fragment41





    The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest
 attunement; all things are born through strife.

 Heraclitus
 On the Universe, fragment46





    Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant
 is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

 Heraclitus
 On the Universe, fragment59





    The road up and the road down is one and the same.

 Heraclitus
 On the Universe, fragment69





    Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

 Heraclitus
 On the Universe, fragment77





    When is death not within ourselves? . . . Living and dead are the same,
 and so are awake and asleep, young and old. 1  2  3  4

 Heraclitus
 On the Universe, fragment78

 1 See Euripides
 2 See Aristophanes
 3 See Montaigne
 4 See Calderon de la Barca




    The people should fight for their law as for a wall.

 Heraclitus
 On the Universe, fragment100





    It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax
 over wine.

 Heraclitus
 On the Universe, fragment108





    A man's character is his fate.

 Heraclitus
 On the Universe, fragment121



 Themistocles

 c. 528 - c. 462  B.C.


    Tuning the lyre and handling the harp are no accomplishments of mine, but
 rather taking in hand a city that was small and inglorious and making it
 glorious and great.

 Themistocles
 From Plutarch, Lives, Themistocles, sec.2





    The wooden wall is your ships.

 Themistocles
 From Plutarch, Lives, Themistocles, sec.10





    Strike, but hear me.

 Themistocles
 From Plutarch, Lives, Themistocles, sec.11





    [Of his son] The boy is the most powerful of all the Hellenes; for the
 Hellenes are commanded by the Athenians, the Athenians by myself, myself by
 the boy's mother, and the mother by her boy.

 Themistocles
 From Plutarch, Lives, Themistocles, sec.18





    [Of two suitors for his daughter's hand] I choose the likely man in
 preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money
 without a man.

 Themistocles
 From Plutarch, Lives, Themistocles, sec.18





    I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

 Themistocles
 From Plutarch, Lives, Themistocles, sec.21





    The speech of man is like embroidered tapestries, since like them this
 too has to be extended in order to display its patterns, but when it is
 rolled up it conceals and distorts them.

 Themistocles
 From Plutarch, Lives, Themistocles, sec.29





    He who commands the sea has command of everything. 1  2  3  4  5

 Themistocles
 From Cicero, Ad Atticum, X, 8

 1 See Bacon
 2 See Waller
 3 See Washington
 4 See Mahan
 5 See Morison




    [Upon being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer] Which
 would you rather be-a victor in the Olympic games, or the announcer of the
 victor?

 Themistocles
 From Plutarch, Apothegms, Themistocles



 Aeschylus

 525-456  B.C.


    I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

 Aeschylus
 The Suppliants,l. 453





    "Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most
 revered righteousness. 1

 Aeschylus
 The Suppliants,l. 707

 1 See Exodus 20:12




    Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.

 Aeschylus
 Prometheus Bound,l. 89





    For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

 Aeschylus
 Prometheus Bound,l. 224





    Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. 1

 Aeschylus
 Prometheus Bound,l. 378

 1 See Milton




    Time as he grows old teaches all things.

 Aeschylus
 Prometheus Bound,l. 981





    God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every
 word. 1

 Aeschylus
 Prometheus Bound,l. 1030

 1 See Numbers 23:19




    On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother
 Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

 Aeschylus
 Prometheus Bound,l. 1089





    I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's
 watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, doglike, I have kept,
 marking the conclave of all the night's stars, those potentates blazing in
 the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations,
 when they wane, when they rise.

 Aeschylus
 Agamemnon,l. 1





    A great ox stands on my tongue.

 Aeschylus
 Agamemnon,l. 36





    He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget
 falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will,
 comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

 Aeschylus
 Agamemnon,l. 177





    She [Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.

 Aeschylus
 Agamemnon,l. 406





    It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who
 has prospered.

 Aeschylus
 Agamemnon,l. 832





    Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man
 happy. 1  2  3

 Aeschylus
 Agamemnon,l. 928

 1 See Ecclesiasticus 11:28
 2 See Solon
 3 See Sophocles




    Alas, I am struck a deep mortal blow!

 Aeschylus
 Agamemnon,l. 1343





    Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. 1

 Aeschylus
 Agamemnon,l. 1364

 1 See Patrick Henry




    Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among
 mortals? 1  2  3

 Aeschylus
 Agamemnon,l. 1485

 1 See Acts 17:28
 2 See Cleanthes
 3 See Aratus




    Do not kick against the pricks.

 Aeschylus
 Agamemnon,l. 1624





    I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

 Aeschylus
 Agamemnon,l. 1668





    Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

 Aeschylus
 The Libation Bearers,l. 59





    Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by
 another's might.

 Aeschylus
 The Libation Bearers,l. 103





    For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has
 done a deed to suffer. 1

 Aeschylus
 The Libation Bearers,l. 312

 1 See Exodus 21:12




    What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?

 Aeschylus
 The Libation Bearers,l. 702





    His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

 Aeschylus
 The Seven Against Thebes, l. 592



 Pheidippides

 d. 490  B.C.


    Rejoice, we are victorious.

 Pheidippides
 From Lucan, Pro Lapsu in Salutado, 3



 Pindar

 c. 518 - c. 438  B.C.


    Water is best. But gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of
 lordly wealth.

 Pindar
 Olympian OdesI,l. 1





    The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

 Pindar
 Olympian OdesI,l. 51





    If any man hopes to do a deed without God's knowledge, he errs.

 Pindar
 Olympian OdesI,l. 104





    Do not peer too far.

 Pindar
 Olympian OdesI,l. 184





    I have many swift arrows in my quiver which speak to the wise, but for
 the crowd they need interpreters. The skilled poet is one who knows much
 through natural gift, but those who have learned their art chatter
 turbulently, vainly, against the divine bird of Zeus.

 Pindar
 Olympian OdesII,l. 150





    I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

 Pindar
 Olympian OdesIV,l. 27





    The issue is in God's hands.

 Pindar
 Olympian OdesXIII,l. 147





    Zeus, accomplisher, to all grant grave restraint and attainment of sweet
 delight.

 Pindar
 Olympian OdesXIII,last line





    Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the
 resources that are within thy reach. 1

 Pindar
 Pythian Odes,III, l. 109

 1 See Euripides




    They say that this lot is bitterest: to recognize the good but by
 necessity to be barred from it. 1  2  3  4

 Pindar
 Pythian Odes,IV, l. 510

 1 See Boethius
 2 See Dante
 3 See Chaucer
 4 See Tennyson




    Creatures of a day, what is a man? What is he not? Mankind is a dream of
 a shadow. But when a god-given brightness comes, a radiant light rests on
 men, and a gentle life. 1  2  3

 Pindar
 Pythian Odes,VIII, l. 135

 1 See The Teaching for Merikare
 2 See Homer
 3 See Aristophanes




    When toilsome contests have been decided, good cheer is the best
 physician, and songs, the sage daughters of the Muses, soothe with their
 touch.

 Pindar
 Nemean Odes,IV,l. 1





    Words have a longer life than deeds.

 Pindar
 Nemean Odes,IV,l. 10





    Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often
 silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

 Pindar
 Nemean Odes,V,l. 30





    One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw
 our breath.

 Pindar
 Nemean Odes,VI,l. 1





    If one but tell a thing well, 1  it moves on with undying voice, and over
 the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds
 ever unquenchable. 2  3

 Pindar
 Isthmian Odes, IV, l. 67

 1 See Chateaubriand
 2 See Simonides
 3 See Thucydides




    It is not possible with mortal mind to search out the purposes of the
 gods.

 Pindar
 Fragment 61





    O bright and violet-crowned and famed in song, bulwark of Greece, famous
 Athens, divine city!

 Pindar
 Fragment 76





    Unsung, the noblest deed will die. 1  2

 Pindar
 Fragment 120

 1 See Horace
 2 See Pope




    What is God? Everything.

 Pindar
 Fragment 140d





    Convention is the ruler of all.

 Pindar
 Fragment 169





    Hope, which most of all guides the changeful mind of mortals.

 Pindar
 Fragment 214



 Anaxagoras

 c. 500-428  B.C.


    The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

 Anaxagoras
 From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers,
 Anaxagoras, 2



 The Pali Canon
 c. 500 - c. 250  B.C.
 

    All that is comes from the mind; it is based on the mind, it is fashioned
 by the mind.

 The Pali Canon
 Suttapitaka.Dhammapada, Chapter 1, Verse 1





    For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by
 love-this is the eternal law.

 The Pali Canon
 Suttapitaka.Dhammapada, Chapter 1, Verse 1





    Avoid what is evil; do what is good; purify the mind-this is the teaching
 of the Awakened One [Buddha].

 The Pali Canon
 Suttapitaka.Dhammapada, Chapter 1, Verse 1





    Better to live alone; with a fool there is no companionship. With few
 desires live alone and do no evil, like an elephant in the forest roaming at
 will.

 The Pali Canon
 Suttapitaka.Dhammapada, Chapter 1, Verse 1





    I have preached the truth without making any distinction between exoteri
 and esoteric doctrine: for in respect of truths, Ananda, the Tathagata has
 no such thing as the closed fist of a teacher, who keeps some things back.

 The Pali Canon
 Suttapitaka.Mahaparinibbana-sutta, Chapter 1, Verse 1 Chapter 2, Verse 32





    Be lamps [or islands] unto yourselves. Be a refuge unto yourselves. Do
 not turn to any external refuge. Hold fast to the teaching [dhamma] as a
 lamp.

 The Pali Canon
 Suttapitaka.Mahaparinibbana-sutta, Chapter 1, Verse 1 Chapter 2, Verse 32





    Few and far between are the Tathagatas, the Arahat Buddhas, who appear i
 the world.

 The Pali Canon
 Suttapitaka.Mahaparinibbana-sutta, Chapter 1, Verse 1 Chapter 2, Verse 32





    Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with
 diligence.

 The Pali Canon
 Suttapitaka.Mahaparinibbana-sutta, Chapter 1, Verse 1 Chapter 2, Verse 32





    This is the noble truth of sorrow. Birth is sorrow, age is sorrow,
 disease is sorrow, death is sorrow . . . in short, all the five components
 of individuality [khandas] are sorrow.
 And this is the noble truth of the arising of sorrow. It arises from
 craving, which leads to rebirth, which brings delight and passion . . .
 And this is the noble truth of the stopping of sorrow. It is the complete
 stopping of that craving . . . being emancipated from it . . .
 And this is the noble truth of the way which leads to the stopping of
 sorrow. It is the noble eightfold path.

 The Pali Canon
 Suttapitaka.Samyutta-nikaya, Chapter 1, Verse 1 Chapter 5, Verse 421





    The law that I have preached . . . and the discipline that I have
 established, will be your master after my disappearance.

 The Pali Canon
 Suttapitaka.Digha Nikaya, II





    This noble eightfold path . . . right views, right aspirations, right
 speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness,
 and right contemplation.

 The Pali Canon
 Suttapitaka.Dhammacakkappavattanasutta, verse 4





 The wise and moral man
 Shines like a fire on a hilltop,
 Making money like the bee,
 Who does not hurt the flower.

 The Pali Canon
 Suttapitaka.Singalavada-sutta, Digha-nikaya, Chapter 1, Verse 1 Chapter 3,
 Verse 180





    It would be absurd to say of the [enlightened] monk, with his heart set
 free, that he believes that the perfected being survives after death-or
 indeed that he does not survive, or that he does and yet does not, or that
 he neither does nor does not. Because the monk is free his state transcends
 all expression, predication, communication, and knowledge.

 The Pali Canon
 Suttapitaka.Digha-nikaya, Chapter 1, Verse 1 Chapter 2, Verse 65





    If, Ananda, women had not received permission to go out from the
 household life and enter the homeless state . . . then would the pure
 religion, Ananda, have lasted long, the good law would have stood fast for a
 thousand years. But since, Ananda, women have now received that permission,
 the pure religion, Ananda, will not now last so long, the good law will now
 stand fast for only five hundred years.

 The Pali Canon
 Vinayapitaka. Cullavagga, bk. X, ch. 1, verse 6





    I go for refuge to the Buddha.
 I go for refuge to the Doctrine.
 I go for refuge to the Order [of monks].

 The Pali Canon
 Traditional (liturgical), passim



 Pericles

 c. 495-429  B.C.
 

    Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

 Pericles
 From Plutarch, Lives, Pericles, sec.18





    Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men
 are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

 Pericles
 From Plutarch, Lives, Pericles, sec.33



 Sophocles

 c. 495-406  B.C.
 

 Silence gives the proper grace to women.

 Sophocles
 Ajax,l. 293





 Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,
 Befits proud birth. 1  2

 Sophocles
 Ajax,l. 480

 1 See Euripides
 2 See the Duc de Levis




    Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

 Sophocles
 Ajax,l. 486





 For kindness begets kindness evermore,
 But he from whose mind fades the memory
 Of benefits, noble is he no more.

 Sophocles
 Ajax,l. 522





 Sleep that masters all.

 Sophocles
 Ajax,l. 675





 I, whom proof hath taught of late
 How so far only should we hate our foes
 As though we soon might love them, and so far
 Do a friend service as to one most like
 Someday to prove our foe, since oftenest men
 In friendship but a faithless haven find.

 Sophocles
 Ajax,l. 678





 Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
 That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

 Sophocles
 Ajax,l. 964





 It is not righteousness to outrage
 A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

 Sophocles
 Ajax,l. 1344





 Ships are only hulls, high walls are nothing,
 When no life moves in the empty passageways. 1  2

 Sophocles
 Oedipus Rex,l. 56

 1 See Thucydides
 2 See Shakespeare




 How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
 When there's no help in truth!

 Sophocles
 Oedipus Rex,l. 316





 The tyrant is a child of Pride
 Who drinks from his great sickening cup
 Recklessness and vanity,
 Until from his high crest headlong
 He plummets to the dust of hope.

 Sophocles
 Oedipus Rex,l. 872





 The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

 Sophocles
 Oedipus Rex,l. 1230





 Time eases all things. 1  2

 Sophocles
 Oedipus Rex,l. 1515

 1 See Terence
 2 See La Fontaine




 Look upon Oedipus
 This is the king who solved the famous riddle [of the Sphinx].

 Sophocles
 Oedipus Rex,l. 1524





 Let every man in mankind's frailty
 Consider his last day; and let none
 Presume on his good fortune until he find
 Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

 Sophocles
 Oedipus Rex,l. 1529





 For God hates utterly
 The bray of bragging tongues.

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 123





    Our ship of state, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has
 come safely to harbor at last. 1

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 163

 1 See Alcaeus




    I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for
 whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State;
 and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare-I
 have no use for him, either.

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 181





    Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. 1

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 277

 1 See Shakespeare




    Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money. 1  2

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 295

 1 See I Timothy 6:10
 2 See Plato




    How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 323





 Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
 More wonderful than man.

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 333 (Ode I)





 It is a good thing
 To escape from death, but it is not great pleasure
 To bring death to a friend.

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 437





 But all your strength is weakness itself against
 The immortal unrecorded laws of God.
 They are not merely now: they were and shall be
 Forever, beyond man utterly.

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 452





 Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 563





 All that is and shall be,
 And all the past, is his [Zeus's].

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 611 (Ode II)





 Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
 He's fit for public authority. 1

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 660

 1 See I Timothy 3:5




 Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil!
 This is why cities tumble and the great houses rain down,
 This is what scatters armies!

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 672





 Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 684





 The ideal condition
 Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;
 But since we are all likely to go astray,
 The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 720





 Love, unconquerable, 1  2  3
 Waster of rich men, keeper
 Of warm lights and all-night vigil
 In the soft face of a girl:
 Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!
 Even the pure immortals cannot escape you,
 And mortal man, in his one day's dusk,
 Trembles before your glory.

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 781 (Ode III)

 1 See Sophocles
 2 See Virgil
 3 See Chaucer




 Wisdom outweighs any wealth. 1

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 1050

 1 See Job 28:18




 There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; 1
 No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
 Big words are always punished,
 And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

 Sophocles
 Antigone
 [c. 442 b.c.],l. 1347, closing lines

 1 See Epicurus




 Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
 To wish for death, and not to compass it.

 Sophocles
 Electra, l. 1008





    A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should
 one day suffer reverse. 1

 Sophocles
 Trachiniae,l. 296

 1 See Proverbs 16:18




    They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love
 rules the gods as he will, and me. 1  2  3

 Sophocles
 Trachiniae,l. 441

 1 See Sophocles
 2 See Virgil
 3 See Chaucer




    Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not
 fanciful, save by trial.

 Sophocles
 Trachiniae,l. 592





    Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it;
 for tomorrow is not, until today is past. 1

 Sophocles
 Trachiniae,l. 943

 1 See Proverbs 27:1




 War never slays a bad man in its course,
 But the good always!

 Sophocles
 Philoctetes, l. 436





 Stranger in a strange country. 1

 Sophocles
 Oedipus at Colonus
 [406 b.c.],l. 184

 1 See Exodus 2:22




 The good befriend themselves.

 Sophocles
 Oedipus at Colonus
 [406 b.c.],l. 309





 The immortal
 Gods alone have neither age nor death!
 All other things almighty Time disquiets.

 Sophocles
 Oedipus at Colonus
 [406 b.c.],l. 607





 Athens, nurse of men.

 Sophocles
 Oedipus at Colonus
 [406 b.c.],l. 701





 Not to be born surpasses thought and speech.
 The second best is to have seen the light
 And then to go back quickly whence we came. 1  2  3  4

 Sophocles
 Oedipus at Colonus
 [406 b.c.],l. 1224

 1 See Theognis
 2 See Bacon
 3 See Yeats
 4 See Auden




 One word
 Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
 That word is love.

 Sophocles
 Oedipus at Colonus
 [406 b.c.],l. 1616





 It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

 Sophocles
 Oedipus at Colonus
 [406 b.c.],l. 1625





 A remedy too strong for the disease.

 Sophocles
 Tereus, fragment 514





 Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
 But when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
 To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

 Sophocles
 Creusa, fragment 323





 Sons are the anchors of a mother's life.

 Sophocles
 Phaedra, fragment 612





 To him who is in fear everything rustles.

 Sophocles
 Acrisius, fragment58





 No falsehood lingers on into old age.

 Sophocles
 Acrisius, fragment59





 No man loves life like him that's growing old. 1

 Sophocles
 Acrisius, fragment64

 1 See Euripides




 A woman's vows I write upon the wave. 1  2  3  4  5

 Sophocles
 Unknown Dramas, fragment 694

 1 See Catullus
 2 See More
 3 See Bacon
 4 See Shakespeare
 5 See Keats


 Empedocles

 c. 490 - c. 430  B.C.


    At one time through love all things come together into one, at another
 time through strife's hatred they are borne each of them apart.

 Empedocles
 Fragment 17





    The blood around men's heart is their thinking.

 Empedocles
 Fragment 105



 Euripides

 c. 485-406  B.C.
 

 Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

 Euripides
 Alcestis
 [438 b.c.],l. 238





 A second wife
 is hateful to the children of the first;
 a viper is not more hateful.

 Euripides
 Alcestis
 [438 b.c.],l. 309





 A sweet thing, for whatever time,
 to revisit in dreams the dear dead we have lost.

 Euripides
 Alcestis
 [438 b.c.],l. 355





 Oh, if I had Orpheus' voice and poetry
 with which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord,
 I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below.
 I'd go down there for you. Charon or the grim
 King's dog could not prevent me then
 from carrying you up into the fields of light.

 Euripides
 Alcestis
 [438 b.c.],l. 358





 Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. 1  2  3

 Euripides
 Alcestis
 [438 b.c.],l. 462

 1 See Anonymous Latin
 2 See Beaumont and Fletcher
 3 See Twain




 God, these old men!
 How they pray for death! How heavy
 they find this life in the slow drag of days!
 And yet, when Death comes near them,
 You will not find one who will rise and walk with him, not one whose years
 are still a burden to him. 1

 Euripides
 Alcestis
 [438 b.c.],l. 669

 1 See Sophocles




 You love the daylight: do you think your
 father does not?

 Euripides
 Alcestis
 [438 b.c.],l. 691





 Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

 Euripides
 Alcestis
 [438 b.c.],l. 726





 Today's today. Tomorrow, we may be
 ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity. 1

 Euripides
 Alcestis
 [438 b.c.],l. 788

 1 See Edward FitzGerald




 O mortal man, think mortal thoughts! 1

 Euripides
 Alcestis
 [438 b.c.],l. 799

 1 See Pindar




 My mother was accursed the night she bore me,
 and I am faint with envy of all the dead. 1

 Euripides
 Alcestis
 [438 b.c.],l. 865

 1 See Job 3:3




 You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate
 has cursed you.

 Euripides
 Alcestis
 [438 b.c.],l. 927





 I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
 exaltation in the chanting of the Muses;
 I have been versed in the reasonings of men;
 but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

 Euripides
 Alcestis
 [438 b.c.],l. 962





 Time cancels young pain.

 Euripides
 Alcestis
 [438 b.c.],l. 1085





 Slight not what's near through aiming at
 what's far. 1

 Euripides
 Rhesus [c. 435 b.c.], l. 482

 1 See Pindar




 There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

 Euripides
 Medea [431 b.c.],l. 618





 When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor
 nor any worthiness.

 Euripides
 Medea [431 b.c.],l. 627





 What greater grief than the loss of one's
 native land.

 Euripides
 Medea [431 b.c.],l. 650





 I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
 but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
 fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

 Euripides
 Medea [431 b.c.],l. 1078





 We know the good, we apprehend it clearly,
 but we can't bring it to achievement. 1  2

 Euripides
 Hippolytus [428 b.c.]
 ,l. 380

 1 See Romans 7:19
 2 See Ovid




 There is one thing alone
 that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
 a quiet conscience.

 Euripides
 Hippolytus [428 b.c.]
 ,l. 426





 In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

 Euripides
 Hippolytus [428 b.c.]
 ,l. 435





 Love distills desire upon the eyes,
 love brings bewitching grace into the heart
 of those he would destroy.
 I pray that love may never come to me
 with murderous intent,
 in rhythms measureless and wild.
 Not fire nor stars have stronger bolts
 than those of Aphrodite sent
 by the hand of Eros, Zeus's child.

 Euripides
 Hippolytus [428 b.c.]
 ,l. 525





 My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. 1

 Euripides
 Hippolytus [428 b.c.]
 ,l. 612

 1 See Sallust




 Would that I were under the cliffs, in the secret
 hiding-places of the rocks,
 that Zeus might change me to a winged bird. 1

 Euripides
 Hippolytus [428 b.c.]
 ,l. 732

 1 See Psalm 55:6




 I would win my way to the coast,
 apple-bearing Hesperian coast
 of which the minstrels sing,
 where the Lord of the Ocean
 denies the voyager further sailing,
 and fixes the solemn limit of Heaven
 which giant Atlas upholds.
 There the streams flow with ambrosia
 by Zeus's bed of love,
 and holy Earth, the giver of life,
 yields to the gods rich blessedness.

 Euripides
 Hippolytus [428 b.c.]
 ,l. 742





    In a case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other
 side. 1  2

 Euripides
 Heraclidae
 [c. 428 b.c.] (quoted by Aristophanes, The Wasps)

 1 See Protagoras
 2 See St. Augustine




    Leave no stone unturned.

 Euripides
 Heraclidae
 [c. 428 b.c.] (quoted by Aristophanes, The Wasps)





 I care for riches, to make gifts
 To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
 With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth
 For daily gladness; once a man be done
 With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

 Euripides
 Electra [413 b.c.],
 l. 427





    A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

 Euripides
 Iphigenia in Tauris [c. 412 b.c.],l. 114





    The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

 Euripides
 Iphigenia in Tauris [c. 412 b.c.],l. 1026





    Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the
 goddess Demeter, or Earth-whichever name you choose to call her by. It was
 she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the
 son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift
 to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief;
 from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is
 no other medicine for misery.

 Euripides
 The Bacchae [c. 407 b.c.],l. 274





    Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

 Euripides
 The Bacchae [c. 407 b.c.],l. 480





    Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. 1  2

 Euripides
 The Bacchae [c. 407 b.c.],l. 882

 1 See George Herbert
 2 See von Logau




 What is wisdom? What gift of the gods
 is held in glory like this:
 to hold your hand victorious
 over the heads of those you hate?
 Glory is precious forever.

 Euripides
 The Bacchae [c. 407 b.c.],l. 877





 Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven-
 of all the prizes that a mortal man might win,
 these, I say, are wisest; these are best.

 Euripides
 The Bacchae [c. 407 b.c.],l. 1150





    Yet do I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of
 necessity. 1

 Euripides
 Mad Heracles, l. 281

 1 See The Seven Sages




    The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich
 estate.

 Euripides
 Aegeus, fragment 7





    A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

 Euripides
 Aeolus, fragment32





    Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before
 he speaks.

 Euripides
 Aeolus, fragment38





    Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

 Euripides
 Alexander, fragment 44





    The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

 Euripides
 Alcymene, fragment 100





    Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

 Euripides
 Antigone, fragment 164





 When good men die their goodness does not perish,
 But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
 All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. 1

 Euripides
 Temenidae, fragment 734

 1 See Shakespeare




 An old man weds a tyrant, not a wife.

 Euripides
 Phoenix (quoted by Aristophanes,
 Thesmophoriazusae), fragment413





    Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

 Euripides
 Phoenix (quoted by Aristophanes,
 Thesmophoriazusae), fragment809





 Who knows but life be that which men call death,
 And death what men call life? 1  2  3

 Euripides
 Phrixus, fragment830

 1 See Heraclitus
 2 See Aristophanes
 3 See Montaigne




 Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
 Loses the past and is dead for the future. 1  2

 Euripides
 Phrixus, fragment927

 1 See Thucydides
 2 See Santayana




 The gods
 Visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

 Euripides
 Phrixus, fragment970





    Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

 Euripides
 Fragment





    These men won eight victories over the Syracusans when the favor of the
 gods was equal for both sides.

 Euripides
 Epitaph for the Athenians Slain in Sicily



 Herodotus

 c. 485 - c. 425  B.C.


    Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.I, ch.8





    A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments. 1

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.I, ch.8

 1 See Chaucer




    In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature
 and causes parents to inter their children.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.I, ch.87





    [The Persians] are accustomed to deliberate about the most important
 matters when they are drunk.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.I, ch.133





    It was a kind of Cadmean victory.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.I, ch.166





    For great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.II, ch.120





    If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a
 bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without
 knowing it. 1  2  3

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.II, ch.173

 1 See Ptahhotpe
 2 See Cervantes
 3 See Howell




    It is better to be envied than pitied.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.III, ch.52





    Envy is born in a man from the start.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.III, ch.80





    Force has no place where there is need of skill.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.III, ch.127





    From the foot, Hercules.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.IV, ch.82





    It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.VII, ch.10





    Haste in every business brings failures.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.VII, ch.10





    When life is so burdensome, death has become for man a sought-after
 refuge.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.VII, ch.46





    Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.VII, ch.49





    Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.VII, ch.50





    Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing
 their appointed courses with all speed.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.VIII, ch.98





    The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.VIII, ch.140





    This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no
 power.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.IX, ch.16





    In soft regions are born soft men.

 Herodotus
 The Histories of Herodotus, bk.IX, ch.122



 Protagoras

 c. 485 - c. 410  B.C.


    Man is the measure of all things.

 Protagoras
 Fragment 1





    There are two sides to every question. 1  2

 Protagoras
 From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Protagoras, bk. IX,
 sec. 51

 1 See Euripides
 2 See St. Augustine


 Agis

 Fifth century  B.C.


    The Lacedemonians are not wont to ask how many the enemy are, but where
 they are.

 Agis
 From Plutarch, Apothegms, Agis



 Socrates

 469-399  B.C.
 

    Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself,
 "How many things I have no need of!"

 Socrates
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. II, sec.25





    Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

 Socrates
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. II, sec.27





    There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

 Socrates
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. II, sec.31





    My divine sign indicates the future to me.

 Socrates
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. II, sec.32





    I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. 1

 Socrates
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. II, sec.32

 1 See Milton




    Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink
 that they may live.

 Socrates
 From Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems, 4





    I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

 Socrates
 From Plutarch, Of Banishment





    Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

 Socrates
 From Plato, Phaedo (Socrates' last words)



 Democritus

 c. 460 - c. 400  B.C.


    Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very
 fine.

 Democritus
 Fragment 18





    In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.

 Democritus
 Fragment 117





    By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention
 bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.

 Democritus
 Fragment 125





    Word is a shadow of deed.

 Democritus
 Fragment 145



 Hippocrates

 c. 460-400  B.C.


    I swear by Apollo Physician, by Asclepius, by Health, by Panacea, and by
 all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out,
 according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture. . . . I
 will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment,
 but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing . . . I will keep pure and
 holy both my life and my art . . . In whatsoever houses I enter, I will
 enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrongdoing
 and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free.
 And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession in my
 intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will
 never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets. Now if I carry out
 this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for
 my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the
 opposite befall me.

 Hippocrates
 The Physician's Oath





    Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of
 opportunity.

 Hippocrates
 Precepts, ch.1





    Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that
 wherein there is no great time.

 Hippocrates
 Precepts, ch.1





    Sometimes give your services for nothing, calling to mind a previous
 benefaction or present satisfaction. And if there be an opportunity of
 serving one who is a stranger in financial straits, give full assistance to
 all such. For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art. For
 some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover
 their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the
 physician. And it is well to superintend the sick to make them well, to care
 for the healthy to keep them well, also to care for one's own self, so as to
 observe what is seemly. 1

 Hippocrates
 Precepts, ch.6

 1 See Plato




    In all abundance there is lack.

 Hippocrates
 Precepts, ch.8





    If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your
 ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the
 poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.

 Hippocrates
 Precepts, ch.12





    Opposites are cures for opposites.

 Hippocrates
 Breaths, bk. I





    Medicine is the most distinguished of all the arts, but through the
 ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who casually judge such
 practitioners, it is now of all the arts by far the least esteemed.

 Hippocrates
 Law, bk.I





    There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets
 knowledge, the latter ignorance.

 Hippocrates
 Law, bk.IV





    Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy. 1

 Hippocrates
 Law, bk.V

 1 See Manilius




    Idleness and lack of occupation tend-nay are dragged-towards evil.

 Hippocrates
 Decorum, bk. I





    A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human
 blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his
 illnesses.

 Hippocrates
 Regimen in Health, bk. IX





    Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience
 treacherous, judgment difficult.

 Hippocrates
 Aphorisms, sec. I,1





    For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting. 1

 Hippocrates
 Aphorisms, sec. I,6

 1 See Shakespeare




    Many admire, few know.

 Hippocrates
 Regimen, bk.I, sec.24





    Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both
 are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living
 creatures, although the body of each is different.

 Hippocrates
 Regimen, bk.I, sec.28





    Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself
 lend a hand. 1

 Hippocrates
 Regimen, bk.IV, sec. 87

 1 See Aesop


 Thucydides

 c. 460-400  B.C.
 

    Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the
 Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the moment that it broke out,
 believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had
 preceded it.

 Thucydides
 The History of the Peloponnesian War
 [431-413 b.c.], bk.I, sec.1





    With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to
 derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not even trust my
 own impressions, but it rests partly on what I saw myself, partly on what
 others saw for me, the accuracy of the report being always tried by the most
 severe and detailed tests possible. My conclusions have cost me some labor
 from the want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrences by
 different eyewitnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes
 from undue partiality for one side or the other. The absence of romance in
 my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but I shall be
 content if it is judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact
 knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, 1  2
 which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it.
 My history has been composed to be an everlasting possession, not the
 showpiece of an hour. 3

 Thucydides
 The History of the Peloponnesian War
 [431-413 b.c.], bk.I, sec.22

 1 See Euripides
 2 See Santayana
 3 See Ranke




    The great wish of some is to avenge themselves on some particular enemy,
 the great wish of others to save their own pocket. Slow in assembling, they
 devote a very small fraction of the time to the consideration of any public
 object, most of it to the prosecution of their own objects. Meanwhile each
 fancies that no harm will come of his neglect, that it is the business of
 somebody else to look after this or that for him; and so, by the same notion
 being entertained by all separately, the common cause imperceptibly decays.

 Thucydides
 The History of the Peloponnesian War
 [431-413 b.c.], bk.I, sec.141





    Our constitution is named a democracy, because it is in the hands not of
 the few but of the many. But our laws secure equal justice for all in their
 private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honors talent in every
 branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of
 excellence alone. And as we give free play to all in our public life, so we
 carry the same spirit into our daily relations with one another. . . . Open
 and friendly in our private intercourse, in our public acts we keep strictly
 within the control of law. We acknowledge the restraint of reverence; we are
 obedient to whomsoever is set in authority, and to the laws, more especially
 to those which offer protection to the oppressed and those unwritten
 ordinances whose transgression brings admitted shame.

 Thucydides
 The History of the Peloponnesian War
 [431-413 b.c.], bk.II (Funeral Oration of Pericles), sec.37





    We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom
 without unmanliness. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an
 opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to
 acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome.

 Thucydides
 The History of the Peloponnesian War
 [431-413 b.c.], bk.II (Funeral Oration of Pericles), sec.40





    But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is
 before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet
 it.

 Thucydides
 The History of the Peloponnesian War
 [431-413 b.c.], bk.II (Funeral Oration of Pericles), sec.40





    We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

 Thucydides
 The History of the Peloponnesian War
 [431-413 b.c.], bk.II (Funeral Oration of Pericles), sec.40





    In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.

 Thucydides
 The History of the Peloponnesian War
 [431-413 b.c.], bk.II (Funeral Oration of Pericles), sec.41





    Fix your eyes on the greatness of Athens as you have it before you day by
 day, fall in love with her, and when you feel her great, remember that this
 greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and
 with a sense of honor in action . . . So they gave their bodies to the
 commonwealth and received, each for his own memory, praise that will never
 die, and with it the grandest of all sepulchers, not that in which their
 mortal bones are laid, but a home in the minds of men, where their glory
 remains fresh to stir to speech or action as the occasion comes by. For the
 whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven
 only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without
 visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. For you now it
 remains to rival what they have done and, knowing the secret of happiness to
 be freedom and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside
 from the enemy's onset. 1  2  3

 Thucydides
 The History of the Peloponnesian War
 [431-413 b.c.], bk.II (Funeral Oration of Pericles), sec.43

 1 See Simonides
 2 See Pindar
 3 See Brandeis




    Great is the glory of the woman who occasions the least talk among men,
 whether of praise or of blame.

 Thucydides
 The History of the Peloponnesian War
 [431-413 b.c.], bk.II (Funeral Oration of Pericles), sec.45





    For human nature is as surely made arrogant by consideration as it is
 awed by firmness.

 Thucydides
 The History of the Peloponnesian War
 [431-413 b.c.], bk.III, sec. 39





    Men make the city, and not walls or ships without men in them. 1

 Thucydides
 The History of the Peloponnesian War
 [431-413 b.c.], bk.VII, sec. 77 (Address of Nicias to the Athenians at
 Syracuse)

 1 See Sophocles




    This or the like was the cause of the death of a man [Nicias] who, of all
 the Greeks in my time, least deserved such a fate, for he had lived in the
 practice of every virtue.

 Thucydides
 The History of the Peloponnesian War
 [431-413 b.c.], bk.VIII, sec.86





    This was the greatest event in the war, or, in my opinion, in Greek
 history; at once most glorious to the victors and most calamitous to the
 conquered. They were beaten at all points and altogether; their sufferings
 in every way were great. They were totally destroyed-their fleet, their
 army, everything-and few out of many returned home. So ended the Sicilian
 expedition.

 Thucydides
 The History of the Peloponnesian War
 [431-413 b.c.], bk.VIII, sec.87



 Aristophanes

 c. 450-385  B.C.


 For then, in wrath, the Olympian Pericles
 Thundered and lightened, and confounded Hellas
 Enacting laws which ran like drinking songs.

 Aristophanes
 Acharnians [425 b.c.], l. 530





 When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are
 happy and help their friends.
 Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say
 something clever.

 Aristophanes
 Knights [424 b.c.]l. 92





 You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice,
 bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

 Aristophanes
 Knights [424 b.c.]l. 217





 To make the worse appear the better reason. 1

 Aristophanes
 Clouds [423 b.c.]l. 114 and elsewhere

 1 See Milton




 Haven't you sometimes seen a cloud that looked like a centaur?
 Or a leopard perhaps? Or a wolf? Or a bull?

 Aristophanes
 Clouds [423 b.c.]l. 346





 Old men are children for a second time. 1

 Aristophanes
 Clouds [423 b.c.]l. 1417

 1 See Shakespeare




 This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
 Should contrive our fees to pilfer, one who for his native land
 Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

 Aristophanes
 Wasps
 [422 b.c.]l. 1117





 Let each man exercise the art he knows.

 Aristophanes
 Wasps
 [422 b.c.]l. 1431





 You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

 Aristophanes
 Peace [421 b.c.], l. 1083





 On the nightingale] Lord Zeus, listen to the little bird's voice; he has
 filled the whole thicket with honeyed song.

 Aristophanes
 Birds [414 b.c.]l. 223





 Bringing owls to Athens. 1

 Aristophanes
 Birds [414 b.c.]l. 301

 1 See Horace




 The wise learn many things from their enemies.

 Aristophanes
 Birds [414 b.c.]l. 375





 Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways,
 Are the children of Men.

 Aristophanes
 Birds [414 b.c.]l. 451





 Mankind, fleet of life, like tree leaves, weak creatures of clay,
 unsubstantial as shadows, wingless, ephemeral, wretched, mortal and
 dreamlike. 1  2  3  4  5

 Aristophanes
 Birds [414 b.c.]l. 685

 1 See The Teaching for Merikare
 2 See Homer
 3 See 
 4 See 
 5 See Pindar




 Somewhere, what with all these clouds, and all this air,
 There must be a rare name, somewhere . . . How do you like
 "Cloud-Cuckoo-Land"?

 Aristophanes
 Birds [414 b.c.]l. 817





 Halcyon days.

 Aristophanes
 Birds [414 b.c.]l. 1594





 A woman's time of opportunity is short, and if she doesn't seize it, no one
 wants to marry her, and she sits watching for omens.

 Aristophanes
 Lysistrata [411 b.c.]l. 596





 There is no animal more invincible than a woman, nor fire either, nor any
 wildcat so ruthless. 1  2

 Aristophanes
 Lysistrata [411 b.c.]l. 1014

 1 See Congreve
 2 See Nietzsche




 These impossible women! How they do get around us!
 The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

 Aristophanes
 Lysistrata [411 b.c.]l. 1038





 Under every stone lurks a politician.

 Aristophanes
 Thesmophoriazusae [410 b.c.]l. 530





 There's nothing worse in the world than shameless woman-save some other
 woman.

 Aristophanes
 Thesmophoriazusae [410 b.c.]l. 531





 Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,
 At which the audience never fail to laugh?

 Aristophanes
 Frogs
 [405 b.c.]l. 1





 Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax.

 Aristophanes
 Frogs
 [405 b.c.]l. 209 and elsewhere





 A savage-creating stubborn-pulling fellow,
 Uncurbed, unfettered, uncontrolled of speech,
 Unperiphrastic, bombastiloquent.

 Aristophanes
 Frogs
 [405 b.c.]l. 837





 High thoughts must have high language.

 Aristophanes
 Frogs
 [405 b.c.]l. 1058





 Who knows whether living is dying, and breathing
 Is eating, and sleeping is a wool blanket? 1  2  3

 Aristophanes
 Frogs
 [405 b.c.]l. 1477

 1 See Heraclitus
 2 See Euripides
 3 See Montaigne




 Blest the man who possesses a
 Keen intelligent mind.

 Aristophanes
 Frogs
 [405 b.c.]l. 1482





 I am amazed that anyone who has made a fortune should send for his friends.

 Aristophanes
 Plutus [c. 388 b.c.]l. 340





 We say that poverty is the sister of beggary.

 Aristophanes
 Plutus [c. 388 b.c.]l. 549





 Even if you persuade me, you won't persuade me.

 Aristophanes
 Plutus [c. 388 b.c.]l. 600





 A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

 Aristophanes
 Plutus [c. 388 b.c.]l. 1151



 Agathon

 c. 448-400  B.C.


    This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

 Agathon
 From Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, bk. VI, ch. 2



 Agesilaus

 444-400  B.C.


    If all men were just, there would be no need of valor.

 Agesilaus
 From Plutarch, Lives, Agesilaus, sec.23





    It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character
 and make it either good or bad.

 Agesilaus
 From Plutarch, Lives, Agesilaus, sec.36



 Xenophon

 c. 430 - c. 355  B.C.


    Apollo said that everyone's true worship was that which he found in use
 in the place where he chanced to be.

 Xenophon
 Recollections of Socrates, bk. I, ch. 3, sec. 1





    The sea! The sea!

 Xenophon
 Anabasis, IV, 7, 24





    I knew my son was mortal.

 Xenophon
 From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Xenophon, bk. II,
 sec. 55



 Zeuxis

 fl. 400  B.C.


    Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

 Zeuxis
 From Pliny the Elder, Natural History



 Plato

 c. 428-348  B.C.
 

    We who of old left the booming surge of the Aegean lie here in the
 mid-plain of Ecbatana: farewell, renowned Eretria once our country;
 farewell, Athens nigh to Euboea; farewell, dear sea.

 Plato
 The Greek Anthology [1906],
 III, 10





    Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty
 in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I
 reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as
 none but the temperate can carry.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Phaedrus, sec. 279





    Friends have all things in common.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Phaedrus, sec. 279





    And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of
 love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake
 of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two,
 and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to
 fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute
 beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Symposium, sec.211





    Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring
 forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image
 but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become
 the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Symposium, sec.212





    Socrates is a doer of evil, who corrupts the youth; and who does not
 believe in the gods of the state, but has other new divinities of his own.
 Such is the charge.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Apology, sec.24





    The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Apology, sec.38





    Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as
 men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to
 another. . . . Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to
 gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Apology, sec.40





    No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Apology, sec.41





    The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways-I to die, and you
 to live. Which is better God only knows.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Apology, sec.42





    Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run
 away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons
 him.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Phaedo, 1  sec.62

 1 See Socrates




    Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

 Plato
 Dialogues,Phaedo, 1  sec.72





    Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as
 the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all
 their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the
 thought that they are going to the god they serve.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Phaedo, 1  sec.85





    The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the
 rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his
 own assertions.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Phaedo, 1  sec.91





    False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul
 with evil.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Phaedo, 1  sec.91





    The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and
 culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the
 greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey
 thither.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Phaedo, 1  sec.107





    He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of
 age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally
 a burden.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.I,329-D





    No physician, insofar as he is a physician, considers his own good in
 what he prescribes, but the good of his patient; for the true physician is
 also a ruler having the human body as a subject, and is not a mere
 moneymaker. 1

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.I,342-D

 1 See Hippocrates




    When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust
 less on the same amount of income.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.I,343-D





    Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and
 not because they shrink from committing it.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.I,344-C





    The beginning is the most important part of the work.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.I,377-B





    The judge should not be young; he should have learned to know evil, not
 from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil
 in others: knowledge should be his guide, not personal experience.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.III,409-B





    Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.III,413-C





    How, then, might we contrive . . . one noble lie to persuade if possible
 the rulers themselves, but failing that the rest of the city?

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.III,414-C





    Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and
 viciousness, and both of discontent. 1  2

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.IV,422-A

 1 See I Timothy 6:10
 2 See Sophocles




    The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future
 life.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.IV,425-B





    What is the prime of life? May it not be defined as a period of about
 twenty years in a woman's life, and thirty in a man's?

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.V,460-E





    Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have
 the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet
 in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the
 other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their
 evils-no, nor the human race, as I believe-and then only will this our State
 have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.V,473-C





    Let there be one man who has a city obedient to his will, and he might
 bring into existence the ideal polity about which the world is so
 incredulous.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.V,502-B





    Behold! human beings living in an underground den . . . Like ourselves .
 . . they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which
 the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.VII,515-B





    Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world
 to another.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.VII,529





    I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.VII,531-E





    Solon was under a delusion when he said that a man when he grows old may
 learn many things 1 -for he can no more learn much than he can run much;
 youth is the time for any extraordinary toil.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.VII,536-D

 1 See Solon




    Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge
 which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.VII,536-E





    Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able
 to find out the natural bent.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.VII,537





    Oligarchy: A government resting on a valuation of property, in which the
 rich have power and the poor man is deprived of it.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.VIII,550-C





    Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and
 disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. 1

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.VIII,558-C

 1 See Aristotle




    Democracy passes into despotism.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.VIII,562-A





    The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse
 into greatness. . . . This and no other is the root from which a tyrant
 springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.VIII,565-C





    In the early days of his power, he is full of smiles, and he salutes
 everyone whom he meets.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.VIII,566-D





    When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty,
 and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some
 war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.VIII,566-E





    There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses,
 another which makes, a third which imitates them.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.X,601-D





    No human thing is of serious importance.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.X,604-C





    The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

 Plato
 The Republic, bk.X,608-D





    If a person shows that such things as wood, stones, and the like, being
 many are also one, we admit that he shows the coexistence of the one and
 many, but he does not show that the many are one or the one many; he is
 uttering not a paradox but a truism.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Parmenides, sec.129





    The absolute natures or kinds are known severally by the absolute idea of
 knowledge.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Parmenides, sec.134





    If a man, fixing his attention on these and the like difficulties, does
 away with ideas of things and will not admit that every individual thing has
 its own determinate idea which is always one and the same, he will have
 nothing on which his mind can rest; and so he will utterly destroy the power
 of reasoning.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Parmenides, sec.135





    You cannot conceive the many without the one.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Parmenides, sec.166





    Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not,
 one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them,
 in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Parmenides, sec.166





    Well, my art of midwifery is in most respects like theirs; but differs,
 in that I attend men and not women, and I look after their souls when they
 are in labor, and not after their bodies: and the triumph of my art is in
 thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man
 brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Theaetetus, sec.150





    He [the philosopher] does not hold aloof in order that he may gain a
 reputation; but the truth is, that the outer form of him only is in the
 city: his mind, disdaining the littlenesses and nothingnesses of human
 beings, is "flying all abroad" as Pindar says, measuring earth and heaven
 and the things which are under and on the earth and above the heaven,
 interrogating the whole nature of each and all in their entirety, but not
 condescending to anything which is within reach.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Theaetetus, sec.173





    I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a
 block of wax, which is of different sizes in different men; harder, moister,
 and having more or less of purity in one than another, and in some of an
 intermediate quality. . . . Let us say that this tablet is a gift of Memory,
 the mother of the Muses; and that when we wish to remember anything which we
 have seen, or heard, or thought in our own minds, we hold the wax to the
 perceptions and thoughts, and in that material receive the impression of
 them as from the seal of a ring; and that we remember and know what is
 imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or
 cannot be taken, then we forget and do not know.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Theaetetus, sec.191





    Let us now suppose that in the mind of each man there is an aviary of all
 sorts of birds-some flocking together apart from the rest, others in small
 groups, others solitary, flying anywhere and everywhere. . . . We may
 suppose that the birds are kinds of knowledge, and that when we were
 children, this receptacle was empty; whenever a man has gotten and detained
 in the enclosure a kind of knowledge, he may be said to have learned or
 discovered the thing which is the subject of the knowledge: and this is to
 know.

 Plato
 Dialogues,Theaetetus, sec.197





    The greatest penalty of evildoing-namely, to grow into the likeness of
 bad men.

 Plato
 Laws, sec.728





    Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

 Plato
 Laws, sec.808





    You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even
 reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting
 yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

 Plato
 Laws, sec.888





    And this which you deem of no moment is the very highest of all: that is
 whether you have a right idea of the gods, whereby you may live your life
 well or ill.

 Plato
 Laws, sec.888





    Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are
 no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

 Plato
 Laws, sec.888



 Iphicrates

 419-348  B.C.


    My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.

 Iphicrates
 From Plutarch, Apothegms, Iphicrates



 Phocion

 c. 402-317  B.C.


    Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

 Phocion
 From Plutarch, Apothegms, Phocion, sec. 10





    The good have no need of an advocate.

 Phocion
 From Plutarch, Apothegms, Phocion, sec. 10



 Diogenes the Cynic

 c. 400 - c. 325  B.C.


    When asked by Alexander if he wanted anything] Stand a little out of my
 sun.

 Diogenes the Cynic
 From Plutarch, Lives, Alexander, sec. 14





    Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, 1
 Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is
 Plato's man." On which account this addition was made to the definition:
 "With broad flat nails."

 Diogenes the Cynic
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes, sec. 6

 1 See Dryden




    When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man,
 whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

 Diogenes the Cynic
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes, sec. 6





    I am looking for an honest man.

 Diogenes the Cynic
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes, sec. 6





    The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

 Diogenes the Cynic
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes, sec. 6



 Antiphanes

 c. 388 - c. 311  B.C.


    We must have richness of soul.

 Antiphanes
 Greek Comic Fragments, no. 570



 Aristotle

 384-322  B.C.
 

    Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

 Aristotle
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.17





    Hope is a waking dream.

 Aristotle
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.18





    What soon grows old? Gratitude.

 Aristotle
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.18





    Beauty is the gift of God.

 Aristotle
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.19





    Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to
 the dead.

 Aristotle
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.19





    What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

 Aristotle
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.20





    I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what
 others do only from fear of the law.

 Aristotle
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.21





    We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to
 us. 1  2  3  4

 Aristotle
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.21

 1 See Matthew 7:12
 2 See Confucius
 3 See Chesterfield
 4 See Kingsley




    Education is the best provision for old age.

 Aristotle
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec.21





    If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best
 illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is
 like that-agent and patient at once.

 Aristotle
 Physics, bk.II, ch. 8





    Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is
 forgotten through the lapse of Time.

 Aristotle
 Physics, bk.IV, ch. 12





    The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a
 thousandfold.

 Aristotle
 On the Heavens, bk. I, ch. 5





    In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

 Aristotle
 Parts of Animals, bk. I, ch. 5





    All men by nature desire knowledge.

 Aristotle
 Metaphysics, bk.I, ch.1





    The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved. 1

 Aristotle
 Metaphysics, bk.I, ch.7

 1 See Dante




    The actuality of thought is life.

 Aristotle
 Metaphysics, bk.XII, ch.7





    It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most
 excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

 Aristotle
 Metaphysics, bk.XII, ch.9





    Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and
 pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.

 Aristotle
 Nicomachean Ethics, bk.I, ch.1





    While both [Plato and truth] are dear, piety requires us to honor truth
 above our friends.

 Aristotle
 Nicomachean Ethics, bk.I, ch.6





    One swallow does not make a summer.

 Aristotle
 Nicomachean Ethics, bk.I, ch.7





    For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing
 them.

 Aristotle
 Nicomachean Ethics, bk.II, ch.1





    It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible
 only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other
 difficult-to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

 Aristotle
 Nicomachean Ethics, bk.II, ch.6





    We must as second best . . . take the least of the evils. 1

 Aristotle
 Nicomachean Ethics, bk.II, ch.9

 1 See Homer




    A man is the origin of his action. 1

 Aristotle
 Nicomachean Ethics, bk.III, ch. 3

 1 See Sallust




    Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other
 goods.

 Aristotle
 Nicomachean Ethics, bk.VIII, ch. 1





    To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of
 our own existence. 1

 Aristotle
 Nicomachean Ethics, bk.IX, ch. 9

 1 See Descartes




    To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the
 greatest bearing on excellence of character.

 Aristotle
 Nicomachean Ethics, bk.X, ch. 1





    If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable
 that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

 Aristotle
 Nicomachean Ethics, bk.X, ch. 17





    We make war that we may live in peace. 1  2  3  4  5

 Aristotle
 Nicomachean Ethics, bk.X, ch. 17

 1 See Vegetius
 2 See Robert Burton
 3 See Fenelon
 4 See Washington
 5 See Lowell




    With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to
 have and use it.

 Aristotle
 Nicomachean Ethics, bk.X, ch. 19





    Man is by nature a political animal.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.I, ch. 2





    Nature does nothing uselessly.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.I, ch. 2





    He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is
 sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.I, ch. 2





    The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a
 thing is your own and that it is your only one.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.II, ch.4





    It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only
 for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to
 equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more,
 and to prevent the lower from getting more.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.II, ch.7





    Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain
 unaltered.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.II, ch.8





    Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers
 had.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.II, ch.8





    They should rule who are able to rule best.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.II, ch.11





    A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the
 prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. . . . Political
 society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.III, ch. 9





    If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found
 in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the
 government to the utmost. 1

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.IV, ch.4

 1 See Plato




    The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.IV, ch.11





    Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any
 respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim
 to be absolutely equal.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.V, ch.1





    Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they
 may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.V, ch.2





    In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at
 stake.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.V, ch.3





    Well begun is half done.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.V, ch.4





    The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.VI, ch. 2





    Law is order, and good law is good order.

 Aristotle
 Politics, bk.VII, ch. 4





    Evils draw men together.

 Aristotle
 Rhetoric, bk.I, ch. 6





    It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the
 educated when addressing popular audiences.

 Aristotle
 Rhetoric, bk.II, ch. 22





    A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as
 having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arous-ing pity and
 fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

 Aristotle
 Poetics, ch.6





    A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end.

 Aristotle
 Poetics, ch.7





    Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history,
 since its statements are of the nature of universals, whereas those of
 history are singulars.

 Aristotle
 Poetics, ch.9





    A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing
 possibility.

 Aristotle
 Poetics, ch.24





    Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

 Aristotle
 Eudemian Ethics, bk. VII, ch. 2



 Demosthenes

 c. 384-322  B.C.


    Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

 Demosthenes
 First Olynthiac, sec. 11





    Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he
 also believes to be true. 1

 Demosthenes
 Third Olynthiac, sec.19

 1 See Caesar




    You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and
 paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

 Demosthenes
 Third Olynthiac, sec.33





    I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

 Demosthenes
 From Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, bk. I, ch. 8



 Antigonus

 c. 382-301  B.C.


    But how many ships do you reckon my presence to be worth?

 Antigonus
 From Plutarch, Apothegms, Antigonus





    [When described by Hermodotus as "Son of the Sun"] My valet is not aware
 of this.

 Antigonus
 From Plutarch, Apothegms, Antigonus



 Mencius

 372-289  B.C.
 

    When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They
 submit, because their strength is not adequate to resist.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.II,1:3.2





    There is no attribute of the superior man greater than his helping men to
 practice virtue.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.II,1:8.5





    The superior man will not manifest either narrow-mindedness or the want
 of self-respect.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.II,1:9.3





    To give the throne to another man would be easy; to find a man who shall
 benefit the kingdom is difficult.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.III,1:4.10





    Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.III,2:1.5





    If you know that [a] thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in
 putting an end to it-why wait till next year?

 Mencius
 Works, bk.III,2:8.3





    The compass and square produce perfect circles and squares. By the sages,
 the human relations are perfectly exhibited.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.IV,1:2.1





    The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the
 family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.IV,1:5





    The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as
 wild beasts fly to the wilderness.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.IV,1:9.2





    Benevolence is the tranquil habitation of man, and righteousness is his
 straight path.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.IV,1:10.2





    The path of duty lies in what is near, and man seeks for it in what is
 remote.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.IV,1:11





    Sincerity is the way of Heaven.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.IV,1:12.2





    There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is
 the greatest of them.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.IV,1:26.1





    Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to
 act with vigor in what they ought to do.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.IV,2:8





    The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be
 sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute-he simply speaks and
 does what is right.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.IV,2:11





    The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.IV,2:12





    Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit
 of assumptions of superiority.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.IV,2:13.1





    The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to
 flow downwards.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.VI,1:2.2





    From the feelings proper to it, [man's nature] is constituted for the
 practice of what is good.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.VI,1:6.5-6





    Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into
 us from without.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.VI,1:6.7





    Benevolence is man's mind, and righteousness is man's path.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.VI,1:11.1





    The great end of learning is nothing else but to seek for the lost mind.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.VI,1:11.4





    All men have in themselves that which is truly honorable. Only they do
 not think of it.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.VI,1:17.1





    If a scholar have not faith [in his principles], how shall he take a firm
 hold of things?

 Mencius
 Works, bk.VI,2:12





    When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first
 exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.VI,2:15.2





    Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for
 kindness.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.VII,1:14.1





    Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst?
 Men's minds are also injured by them.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.VII,1:27.1





    The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the
 land and grain are next; the sovereign is the lightest.

 Mencius
 Works, bk.VII,2:14.1



 Chuang-tzu

 369-286  B.C.
 

    Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is
 impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

 Chuang-tzu
 On Leveling All Things





    Take, for instance, a twig and a pillar, or the ugly person and the great
 beauty, and all the strange and monstrous transformations. These are all
 leveled together by Tao. Division is the same as creation; creation is the
 same as destruction.

 Chuang-tzu
 On Leveling All Things





    I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or
 whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

 Chuang-tzu
 On Leveling All Things





    All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the
 utility of futility.

 Chuang-tzu
 This Human World





    He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

 Chuang-tzu
 The Great Supreme





    Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies
 and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original
 nature.

 Chuang-tzu
 Joined Toes





    In the days of perfect nature, man lived together with birds and beasts,
 and there was no distinction of their kind . . . they were in a state of
 natural integrity. . . . When Sages appeared, crawling for charity and
 limping with duty, doubt and confusion entered men's minds. . . .
 Destruction of Tao and virtue in order to introduce charity and duty-this is
 the error of the Sages.

 Chuang-tzu
 Horses' Hoofs





    Banish wisdom, discard knowledge, and gangsters will stop!

 Chuang-tzu
 Opening Trunks; or, A Protest Against Civilization





    For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to
 grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not
 excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why
 there is chaos.

 Chuang-tzu
 Opening Trunks; or, A Protest Against Civilization





    Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for
 much knowledge is a curse.

 Chuang-tzu
 On Tolerance





    "The prince keeps [a] tortoise carefully enclosed in a chest in his
 ancestral temple. Now would this tortoise rather be dead and have its
 remains venerated, or would it rather be alive and wagging its tail in the
 mud?"
 "It would rather be alive . . . and wagging its tail in the mud."
 "Begone!" cried Chuang-tzu. "I too will wag my tail in the mud."

 Chuang-tzu
 Autumn Floods



 Pytheas

 fl. 330  B.C.


    They smell of the lamp.

 Pytheas
 From Plutarch, Lives, Demosthenes



 Alexander the Great

 356-323  B.C.


    [At Achilles' tomb] O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald
 of your glory! 1

 Alexander the Great
 From Cicero, Pro Archia, 24

 1 See Chateaubriand




    If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

 Alexander the Great
 From Plutarch, Lives, Alexander, 14



 Apelles

 fl. 325  B.C.


    Not a day without a line.

 Apelles
 Proverbial from Pliny the Elder,
 Natural History, XXXV,36





    A cobbler should not judge above his last.

 Apelles
 Proverbial from Pliny the Elder,
 Natural History, XXXV,85



 Menander

 c. 342-292  B.C.
 

    We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

 Menander
 Lady of Andros, fragment 50





    Riches cover a multitude of woes.

 Menander
 The Boeotian Girl, fragment 90





    Whom the gods love dies young.

 Menander
 The Double Deceiver, fragment 125





    At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we
 should play the fool. 1  2  3  4

 Menander
 Those Offered for Sale, fragment 421

 1 See Horace
 2 See Montaigne
 3 See Bacon
 4 See Linnaeus




    The man who has never been flogged has never been taught.

 Menander
 The Girl Who Gets Flogged, fragment422





    The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

 Menander
 The Girl Who Gets Flogged, fragment433





    This is living, not to live unto oneself alone.

 Menander
 The Brothers in Love, fragment 508





    Deus ex machina [A god from the machine].

 Menander
 The Woman Possessed with a Divinity, fragment 227





    I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

 Menander
 Unidentified fragment545





    Even God lends a hand to honest boldness. 1  2  3

 Menander
 Unidentified fragment572

 1 See Terence
 2 See Virgil
 3 See Propertius




    Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

 Menander
 Unidentified fragment651





    It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

 Menander
 Unidentified fragment639





    Health and intellect are the two blessings of life.

 Menander
 Monostikoi (Single Lines)





    The man who runs may fight again.

 Menander
 Monostikoi (Single Lines)





    Conscience is a God to all mortals.

 Menander
 Monostikoi (Single Lines)



 Epicurus

 341-270  B.C.


    Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when
 death has come, we are not.

 Epicurus
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. X, sec.125





    Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

 Epicurus
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. X, sec.128





    It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and
 justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living
 pleasurably. 1

 Epicurus
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. X, sec.140

 1 See Sophocles


 Theophrastus

 d. 278  B.C.


    Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

 Theophrastus
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec. 40



 Zeno

 335-263  B.C.


    [When asked, "What is a friend?"] Another I.

 Zeno
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. VII, sec.23





    The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. 1

 Zeno
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. VII, sec.87

 1 See Marcus Aurelius


 Cleanthes

 c. 330-232  B.C.


    For we are your offspring.

 Cleanthes
 Hymn to Zeus, l. 4





    Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall
 follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to,
 I shall follow no less surely.

 Cleanthes
 From Epictetus, Enchiridion, sec. 53



 Euclid

 fl. 300  B.C.


    Q.E.D. [Quod erat demonstrandum: Which was to be proved.]

 Euclid
 Elements, bk. I, proposition 5





    [To Ptolemy I] There is no royal road to geometry.

 Euclid
 From Proclus, Commentary on Euclid, Prologue



 Bion

 c. 325 - c. 255  B.C.


    Old age is the harbor of all ills.

 Bion
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. IV, sec.47





    Wealth is the sinews of affairs. 1  2  3  4

 Bion
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. IV, sec.48

 1 See Cicero
 2 See Rabelais
 3 See Dryden
 4 See Churchill




    The road to Hades is easy to travel.

 Bion
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. IV, sec.49





    He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. 1  2

 Bion
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. IV, sec.50

 1 See Robert Burton
 2 See Ingersoll




    Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in
 sport, but in earnest. 1

 Bion
 From Plutarch, Water and Land Animals, 7

 1 See L'Estrange


 Pyrrhus

 c. 318-272  B.C.


    Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

 Pyrrhus
 From Plutarch, Lives, Pyrrhus, sec. 21



 Aratus

 c. 315-240  B.C.


    From Zeus let us begin, whom we mortals never leave unnamed: full of Zeus
 are all streets and all gathering places of men, and full are the sea and
 harbors. Everywhere we all have need of Zeus. For we are also his offspring.

 Aratus
 Phaenomena, sec. 1



 Theocritus

 c. 310-250  B.C.
 

 Sweet is the whispering music of yonder pine that sings. 1

 Theocritus
 Idylls,I

 1 See Longfellow




 Our concern be peace of mind: some old crone let us seek,
 To spit on us for luck and keep unlovely things afar.

 Theocritus
 Idylls,VII





 Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant,
 And kestrels dear to kestrels, but to me the Muse and song.

 Theocritus
 Idylls,IX





 The frog's life is most jolly, my lads; he has no care
 Who shall fill up his cup; for he has drink enough to spare.

 Theocritus
 Idylls,X





 Verily great grace may go
 With a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. 1

 Theocritus
 Idylls,XXVIII

 1 See Homer


 Callimachus

 c. 300-240  B.C.


    Big book, big bore.

 Callimachus
 From The Greek Anthology [1973],Peter Jay,
 ed.,introduction to Callimachus





 You're walking by the tomb of Battiades,
 Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy
 Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

 Callimachus
 From The Greek Anthology [1973],Peter Jay,
 ed.,no.150, On Himself





 Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me
 Tears, and I remembered how often together
 We ran the sun down with talk . . . somewhere
 You've long been dust, my Halicarnassian friend.
 But your Nightingales live on. Though the Death-world
 Claws at everything, it will not touch them.

 Callimachus
 From The Greek Anthology [1973],Peter Jay,
 ed.,no.152



 Leonidas , of Tarentum

 c. 290 - c. 220  B.C.


 Far from Italy, far from my native Tarentum
 I lie; and this is the worst of it-worse than death.
 An exile's life is no life. But the Muses loved me.
 For my suffering they gave me a honeyed gift:
 My name survives me. Thanks to the sweet Muses
 Leonidas will echo throughout all time.

 Leonidas , of Tarentum
 From The Greek Anthology [1973],Peter Jay, ed., no.189





 The season of ships is here,
 The west wind and the swallows;
 Flowers in the fields appear,
 And the ocean of hills and hollows
 Has calmed its waves and is clear.Free that anchor and chain!
 Set your full canvas flying,
 O men in the harbor lane:
 It is I, Priapus, crying.
 Sail out on your trades again!

 Leonidas , of Tarentum
 From The Greek Anthology [1973],Peter Jay, ed., no.197



 Archimedes

 c. 287-212  B.C.


    Eureka! [I have found it!]

 Archimedes
 From Vitruvius Pollio [first century b.c.],
 De Architectura, bk. IX, 215





    Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.

 Archimedes
 From Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio, bk. VIII,
 prop. 10, sec. 11



 Fabius Maximus

 c. 275-203  B.C.


    To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by
 misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office. 1

 Fabius Maximus
 From Plutarch, Lives, Fabius Maximus, sec. 5

 1 See Horace


 Lacydes

 fl. c. 241  B.C.


    [When asked late in life why he was studying geometry] If I should not be
 learning now, when should I be?

 Lacydes
 From Diogenes Laertius,
 Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Lacydes, sec. 5



 Titus Maccius Plautus

 254-184  B.C.


    What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours. 1

 Titus Maccius Plautus
 Trinummus, act II, sc. ii,l. 48

 1 See Shakespeare




    Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

 Titus Maccius Plautus
 Trinummus, act II, sc. ii,l. 88





    You are seeking a knot in a bulrush.

 Titus Maccius Plautus
 Menaechmi, act II, sc. i, l. 22





    In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the
 other. 1

 Titus Maccius Plautus
 Aulularia, act II, sc. ii, l. 18

 1 See Matthew 7:9




    There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to
 make gain.

 Titus Maccius Plautus
 Captivi, act II, sc. ii, l. 77





    Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

 Titus Maccius Plautus
 Rudens, act II, sc. v, l. 71





    Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never
 entrusts its life to one hole only.

 Titus Maccius Plautus
 Truculentus, act IV, sc. iv, l. 15





    No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a
 nuisance after three days.

 Titus Maccius Plautus
 Miles Gloriosus, act III, sc.i





    No man is wise enough by himself.

 Titus Maccius Plautus
 Miles Gloriosus, act III, sc.iii





    Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

 Titus Maccius Plautus
 Epidicus, act III, sc. iii, l. 44





    Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you
 do hope.

 Titus Maccius Plautus
 Mostellaria, actI, sc. iii, l. 40





    To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy.

 Titus Maccius Plautus
 Mostellaria, actIII, sc. ii, l. 104





    Practice yourself what you preach.

 Titus Maccius Plautus
 Asinaria, act III, sc. iii, l. 644



 Maharbal
 Barca the Carthaginian
 fl. 210  B.C.


    You know how to win a victory, Hannibal, but not how to use it.

 Maharbal
 From Livy, History, XXII, 51



 Bhagavad Gita
 250  B.C. - A.D.  250
 

 For certain is death for the born
 And certain is birth for the dead;
 Therefore over the inevitable
 Thou shouldst not grieve.

 Bhagavad Gita






 This embodied [soul] is eternally unslayable
 In the body of everyone, son of Bharata;
 Therefore all beings
 Thou shouldst not mourn.Likewise having regard for thine own [caste] duty
 Thou shouldst not tremble;
 For another, better thing than a fight required of duty
 Exists not for a warrior.

 Bhagavad Gita






 On action alone be thy interest,
 Never on its fruits.
 Let not the fruits of action be thy motive,
 Nor be thy attachment to inaction.

 Bhagavad Gita






 Better one's own duty, [though] imperfect,
 Than another's duty well performed.

 Bhagavad Gita






 In whatsoever way any come to Me,
 In that same way I grant them favor.

 Bhagavad Gita






 Who sees Me in all,
 And sees all in Me,
 For him I am not lost,
 And he is not lost for Me.

 Bhagavad Gita






 Whatsoever state [of being] meditating upon
 He leaves the body at death, 1
 To just that he goes, son of Kunti,
 Always being made to be in the condition of that.

 Bhagavad Gita


 1 See Eliot's lines from The Dry Salvages quoted in the note to Gita 2:47




    If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the
 sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One [Krishna].

 Bhagavad Gita




 Quintus Ennius

 239-169  B.C.


    No sooner said than done-so acts your man of worth.

 Quintus Ennius
 Annals, bk. 9 (quoted by Priscianus)





 I never indulge in poetics
 Unless I am down with rheumatics.

 Quintus Ennius
 Fragment of a satire (quoted by Priscianus)





    By delaying he preserved the state.

 Quintus Ennius
 From Cicero, De Senectute,IV





    Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with
 weeping.

 Quintus Ennius
 From Cicero, De Senectute,XX





    The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

 Quintus Ennius
 From Cicero, De Natura Deorum, bk. I, ch. 35





    No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

 Quintus Ennius
 Iphigenia. From Cicero, De Divinatione, bk. II, ch. 13





    The idle mind knows not what it is it wants.

 Quintus Ennius
 Iphigenia. From Cicero, De Divinatione, bk. II, ch. 13





    Whom they fear they hate. 1  2

 Quintus Ennius
 Thyestes. From Cicero, De Officiis, II, 7

 1 See Accius
 2 See Machiavelli


 Marcus Porcius Cato
 Cato the Elder
 Cato the Censor
 234-149  B.C.
 

    A farm is like a man-however great the income, if there is extravagance
 but little is left.

 Marcus Porcius Cato
 On Agriculture,
 bk.I, sec. 6





    Even though work stops, expenses run on.

 Marcus Porcius Cato
 On Agriculture,
 bk.XXXIX, sec. 2





    It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since
 it has no ears.

 Marcus Porcius Cato
 From Plutarch, Lives, Cato, sec.8





    Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise
 men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of
 the wise.

 Marcus Porcius Cato
 From Plutarch, Lives, Cato, sec.9





    I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have
 one.

 Marcus Porcius Cato
 From Plutarch, Lives, Cato, sec.19





    Carthage must be destroyed.

 Marcus Porcius Cato
 From Plutarch, Lives, Cato, sec.27





    Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

 Marcus Porcius Cato
 From Caius Julius Victor,
 Ars Rhetorica, I [4th century a.d.]





    An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

 Marcus Porcius Cato
 From Seneca the Elder [c. 45 b.c.-a.d. 40],
 Controversiae, I, Preface, and elsewhere



 Caecilius Statius
 Caecilius Statius
 220-168  B.C.


    He plants trees to benefit another generation.

 Caecilius Statius
 Synephebi. Quoted by Cicero in De Senectute, VII



 Polybius

 c. 208 - c. 126  B.C.


    For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of
 possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice it is the most
 infamous and harmful of all.

 Polybius
 History, bk.IV, sec. 31





    Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how
 to make proper use of their victories. 1

 Polybius
 History, bk.X, sec. 36

 1 See Maharbal




    That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but
 not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes
 made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to
 avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our
 country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there
 between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and
 critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their
 guard.

 Polybius
 History, bk.XVI





    There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience
 that dwells in the heart of every man. 1  2

 Polybius
 History, bk.XVIII, sec. 43

 1 See Stubbs
 2 See R. L. Stevenson


 Terence
 Publius Terentius Afer
 c. 190-159  B.C.
 

    Moderation in all things.

 Terence
 Andria (The Lady of Andros),l. 61





    Obsequiousness begets friends, truth hatred.

 Terence
 Andria (The Lady of Andros),l. 68





    Hence these tears.

 Terence
 Andria (The Lady of Andros),l. 126





    I am Davos, not Oedipus.

 Terence
 Andria (The Lady of Andros),l. 194





    Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.

 Terence
 Andria (The Lady of Andros),l. 555





    Charity begins at home.

 Terence
 Andria (The Lady of Andros),l. 635





    I am a man: nothing human is alien to me.

 Terence
 Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 77





    Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

 Terence
 Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 221





    Time removes distress.

 Terence
 Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 421





    Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

 Terence
 Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 675





    Some people ask, "What if the sky were to fall?"

 Terence
 Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 719





    Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

 Terence
 Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 796





    There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it
 reluctantly.

 Terence
 Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 805





    While there's life, there's hope.

 Terence
 Heauton Timoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor),l. 981





    In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before. 1  2  3

 Terence
 Eunuchus,l. 41 (Prologue)

 1 See Ecclesiastes 1:9
 2 See Robert Burton
 3 See La Bruyere




    I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing,
 still of nothing am I in want. 1  2

 Terence
 Eunuchus,l. 243

 1 See II Corinthians 6:10
 2 See Wotton




    There are vicissitudes in all things. 1  2

 Terence
 Eunuchus,l. 276

 1 See Bacon
 2 See Sterne




    I don't care one straw.

 Terence
 Eunuchus,l. 411





    Take care and say this with presence of mind.

 Terence
 Eunuchus,l. 769





    He is wise who tries everything before arms.

 Terence
 Eunuchus,l. 789





    I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you
 won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

 Terence
 Eunuchus,l. 812





    I took to my heels as fast as I could.

 Terence
 Eunuchus,l. 844





    Many a time . . . from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

 Terence
 Eunuchus,l. 873





    Fortune helps the brave.

 Terence
 Phormio,l. 203





    So many men, so many opinions; every one his own way.

 Terence
 Phormio,l. 454





    As they say, I have got a wolf by the ears.

 Terence
 Phormio,l. 506





    I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from
 others to take an example for himself.

 Terence
 Adelphoe (The Brothers),l. 415





    According as the man is, so must you humor him.

 Terence
 Adelphoe (The Brothers),l. 431





    It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our
 interests.

 Terence
 Adelphoe (The Brothers),l. 833



 Huai-nan Tzu
 Liu An
 Second century  B.C.
 

    Before heaven and earth had taken form all was vague and amorphous.
 Therefore it was called the Great Beginning. The Great Beginning produced
 emptiness and emptiness produced the universe. . . . The combined essences
 of heaven and earth became the yin and yang, the concentrated essences of
 the yin and yang became the four seasons, and the scattered essences of the
 four seasons became the myriad creatures of the world.

 Huai-nan Tzu
 Treatise



 Tung Chung-shu

 c. 179 - c. 104  B.C.
 

    He who is the ruler of men takes nonaction as his way and considers
 impartiality as his treasure. He sits upon the throne of non-action and
 rides upon the perfection of his officials.

 Tung Chung-shu
 Ch'un-ch'iu fan-lu



 Lucius Accius

 170-86  B.C.


    Let them hate, so long as they fear.

 Lucius Accius
 Fragment




 Han Wu-ti

 157-87  B.C.
 

 The sound of her silk skirt has stopped.
 On the marble pavement dust grows.
 Her empty room is cold and still.
 Fallen leaves are piled against the doors.
 Longing for that lovely lady
 How can I bring my aching heart to rest?

 Han Wu-ti
 On the death of his mistress



 Marcus Terentius Varro

 116-27  B.C.


    The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

 Marcus Terentius Varro
 On Agriculture [De Re Rustica],
 bk.I, ii,2





    When people come to inspect . . . farmsteads, it is not to see
 collections of pictures . . . but collections of fruit.

 Marcus Terentius Varro
 On Agriculture [De Re Rustica],
 bk.I, ii,10





    Not all who own a harp are harpers.

 Marcus Terentius Varro
 On Agriculture [De Re Rustica],
 bk.II, i, 3





    It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that
 built the cities.

 Marcus Terentius Varro
 On Agriculture [De Re Rustica],
 bk.III, i, 4



 Marcus Licinius Crassus

 fl. 70  B.C.


    Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

 Marcus Licinius Crassus
 From Plutarch, Lives, Crassus, ch. 26



 Meleager

 First century  B.C.


    Farewell, Morning Star, herald of dawn, and quickly come as the Evening
 Star, bring-ing again in secret her whom thou takest away. 1  2

 Meleager
 The Greek Anthology [1906],J. W. Mackail,
 ed., sec. 1, no. 21

 1 See Sappho
 2 See Housman


 Marcus Tullius Cicero

 106-43  B.C.


    How long, Catiline, will you abuse our patience?

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 In Catilinam,I, 1





    O tempora! O mores! [Oh the times! The customs!]

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 In Catilinam,I, 1





    He has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 In Catilinam,II, 1





    I am a Roman citizen.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 In Verrem, V, 57





    Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Pro Milone,IV, 11





    Cui bono? [To whose advantage?]

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Pro Milone,XII, 32





    These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament
 in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at
 home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us
 when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Pro Archia Poeta, VII, 16





    Leisure with dignity.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Oratore,II, 62





    History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it
 illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and
 brings us tidings of antiquity.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Oratore,II,36





    The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an
 untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true.
 Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of
 malice. 1

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Oratore,II,62

 1 See Polybius




    The freedom of poetic license.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Oratore,III, 153





    If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt
 at the second, or even at the third.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Orator ad M. Brutum,4





    For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment,
 so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces,
 delights us. 1  2

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Orator ad M. Brutum,78

 1 See Milton
 2 See Thomson




    Nothing quite new is perfect.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Brutus, 71





    There were poets before Homer.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Brutus, 71





    The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Optimo Genere Oratorum, 16





    The dregs of Romulus.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Ad Atticum,II, 1





    While there's life, there's hope.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Ad Atticum,IX, 10





    What is more agreeable than one's home?

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Ad Familiares, IV, 8





    I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped
 Europa.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Natura Deorum, I, 78





    It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should
 prefigure certain events. 1  2  3  4

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Divinatione,I, 118

 1 See Shakespeare
 2 See Campbell
 3 See Shelley
 4 See Wells




    There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it. 1  2

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Divinatione,II, 119

 1 See Goethe
 2 See Descartes




    I would rather be wrong with Plato than right with such men as these [the
 Pythagoreans].

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Tusculanae Disputationes,I, 17





    O philosophy, you leader of life.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Tusculanae Disputationes,V, 2





    Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to
 place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to
 inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Tusculanae Disputationes,V, 4





    The highest good.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Officiis,I, 2





    Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Officiis,I, 22





    Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly
 alone. 1  2

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Officiis,III, 1

 1 See Samuel Rogers
 2 See Thoreau




    Rome, fortunately natal 'neath my consulship!

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Consultatu Suo





    The people's good is the highest law.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Legibus, III,3





    He used to raise a storm in a teapot.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Legibus, III,16





    Let the punishment match the offense.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Legibus, III,20





    The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. 1  2  3  4

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Amicitia,XVII

 1 See Aristotle
 2 See Publilius Syrus
 3 See Ovid
 4 See Heywood




    A friend is, as it were, a second self. 1  2  3  4

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Amicitia,XXI

 1 See Aristotle
 2 See Zeno
 3 See Horace
 4 See Donne




    Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man
 with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but
 never in mind.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Senectute,XI





    Old men are garrulous by nature.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Senectute,XVI





    Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 De Senectute,XXIII





    Endless money forms the sinews of war.

 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Philippics, V, 2:5



 Pompey
 Gnaeus Pompeius
 106-48  B.C.


    More worship the rising than the setting sun.

 Pompey
 From Plutarch, Lives, Pompey,14





    A dead man cannot bite.

 Pompey
 From Plutarch, Lives, Pompey,77



 Gaius Julius Caesar
 Julius Caesar
 100-44  B.C.


    All Gaul is divided into three parts.

 Gaius Julius Caesar
 De Bello Gallico,I, 1





    Men willingly believe what they wish.

 Gaius Julius Caesar
 De Bello Gallico,III, 18





    I love treason but hate a traitor.

 Gaius Julius Caesar
 From Plutarch, Lives,Romulus, sec. 17





    I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.

 Gaius Julius Caesar
 From Plutarch, Lives,Caesar, sec.10





    I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in
 Rome.

 Gaius Julius Caesar
 From Plutarch, Lives,Caesar, sec.11





    The die is cast.

 Gaius Julius Caesar
 From Plutarch, Lives,Caesar, sec.32





    Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in
 your boat.

 Gaius Julius Caesar
 From Plutarch, Lives,Caesar, sec.38





    The Ides of March have come. 1

 Gaius Julius Caesar
 From Plutarch, Lives,Caesar, sec.63

 1 See Shakespeare




    [In answer to a question as to what sort of death was the best] A sudden
 death.

 Gaius Julius Caesar
 From Plutarch, Lives,Caesar, sec.63





    I came, I saw, I conquered.

 Gaius Julius Caesar
 From Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, Julius, sec.37





    You also, Brutus my son.

 Gaius Julius Caesar
 From Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, Julius, sec.82





    It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and
 the hungry-looking.

 Gaius Julius Caesar
 From Plutarch, Lives, Antony, sec. 11



 Lucretius
 Titus Lucretius Carus
 99-55  B.C.
 

    Mother of Aeneas and his race, darling of men and gods, nurturing Venus.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.I,l. 1 (Invocation)





    For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.I,l. 7





    The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the
 flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in
 thought and mind.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.I,l. 72





    Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.I,l. 101





    Nothing can be created from nothing.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.I,l. 155





    The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.I,l. 268





    The ring on the finger becomes thin beneath by wearing, the fall of
 dripping water hollows the stone.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.I,l. 314





    Nature works by means of bodies unseen.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.I,l. 328





    Material objects are of two kinds, atoms and compounds of atoms. The
 atoms themselves cannot be swamped by any force, for they are preserved
 indefinitely by their absolute solidity.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.I,l. 518





    On a dark theme I trace verses full of light, touching all the muses'
 charm.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.I,l. 933





    Truths kindle light for truths.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.I,l. 1117





    Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to
 gaze from shore upon another's tribulation: not because any man's troubles
 are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free
 yourself is pleasant.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.II,l. 1





    O miserable minds of men! O blind hearts! In what darkness of life, in
 what great dangers ye spend this little span of years!

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.II,l. 14





    Life is one long struggle in the dark.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.II,l. 54





    Thus the sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortals live dependent
 one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short
 space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass
 on the torch of life.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.II,l. 75





    So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and
 show the tracks of knowledge.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.II,l. 123





    All things must needs be borne on through the calm void, moving at equal
 rate with unequal weights.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.II,l. 238





    Never trust her at any time, when the calm sea shows her false alluring
 smile.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.II,l. 558





    What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth. 1

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.II,l. 999

 1 See The Book of Common Prayer




    That fear of Acheron be sent packing which troubles the life of man from
 its deepest depths, suffuses all with the blackness of death, and leaves no
 delight clean and pure.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.III,l. 37





    So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity
 to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn
 from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.III,l. 55





    For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we
 in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things
 children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. 1

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.III,l. 87

 1 See Bacon




    A tree cannot grow in the sky, nor clouds be in the deep sea, nor fish
 live in the fields, nor can blood be in sticks nor sap in rocks.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.III,l. 784





    Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the
 nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.III,l. 831





    When immortal Death has taken mortal life.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.III,l. 869





    Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and
 with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.III,l. 938





    By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
 1

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.III,l. 1087

 1 See Montaigne




    What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.IV,l. 637





    From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to
 choke them even amid the flowers.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.IV,l. 1133





    But if one should guide his life by true principles, man's greatest
 wealth is to live on a little with contented mind; for a little is never
 lacking.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.V,l. 1117





    Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.V,l. 1140





    Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and
 generally return upon him who began. 1

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.V,l. 1152

 1 See Matthew 26:52




    [Epicurus] set forth what is the highest good, towards which we all
 strive, and pointed out the past, whereby along a narrow track we may strain
 on towards it in a straight course.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.VI,l. 26





    [The people] were given over in troops to disease and death.

 Lucretius
 De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),
 bk.VI,l. 1144



 Gaius Valerius Catullus

 87 - c. 54  B.C.
 

    To whom am I to present my pretty new book, freshly smoothed off with dry
 pumice stone? To you, Cornelius: for you used to think that my trifles were
 worth something, long ago.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,I,l. 1





    May it live and last for more than one century.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,I,l. 10





    Mourn, ye Graces and Loves, and all you whom the Graces love. My lady's
 sparrow is dead, the sparrow, my lady's pet.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,III,l. 1





    Now he goes along the dark road, thither whence they say no one returns.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,III,l. 11





    But these things are past and gone.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,IV, l. 25





    Let us live and love, my Lesbia, and value at a penny all the talk of
 crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light
 has set, there's the sleep of perpetual night. 1  2  3  4  5  Give me a
 thousand kisses.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,V, l. 1

 1 See Shakespeare
 2 See Campion
 3 See Jonson
 4 See Herrick
 5 See Fouche




    Poor Catullus, you should cease your folly.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,VIII,l. 1





    But you, Catullus, be resolved and firm.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,VIII,l. 19





    And let her not look to find my love, as before; my love, which by her
 fault has dropped like a flower on the meadow's edge, when it has been
 touched by the plow passing by.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,XI, l. 21





    Over head and heels.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,XX, l. 9





    Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away!

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,XXXI, l. 7





    Whatever it is, wherever he is, whatever he is doing, he smiles: it is a
 malady he has, neither an elegant one as I think, nor in good taste.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,XXXIX,l. 6





    There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,XXXIX,l. 16





    Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,XLIII, l. 8





    Now spring brings back balmy warmth.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,XLVI, l. 1





    Catullus, the worst of all poets, gives you [Marcus Tullius] his warmest
 thanks; he being as much the worst of all poets as you are the best of all
 patrons.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,XLIX, l. 4





    He seems to me to be equal to a god, he, if it may be, seems to surpass
 the very gods, who sitting opposite you again gazes at you and hears you
 sweetly laughing. 1

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,LI, l. 1

 1 See Sappho




    What an eloquent manikin!

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,LIII, l. 5





    I would see a little Torquatus, stretching his baby hands from his
 mother's lap, smile a sweet smile at his father with lips half parted.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,LXI, l. 209





    The evening is come; rise up, ye youths. Vesper from Olympus now at last
 is just raising his long-looked-for light.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,LXII,l. 1





    What is given by the gods more desirable than the fortunate hour?

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,LXII,l. 30





    Not unknown am I to the goddess [Venus] who mingles with her cares a
 sweet bitterness.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,LXVIII,l. 17





    It is not fit that men should be compared with gods.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,LXVIII,l. 141





    What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and
 running water. 1  2  3  4  5

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,LXX

 1 See Sophocles
 2 See More
 3 See Bacon
 4 See Shakespeare
 5 See Keats




    Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that
 anyone can ever become grateful.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,LXXIII, l. 1





    If a man can take any pleasure in recalling the thought of kindnesses
 done.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,LXXVI,l. 1





    It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-cherished love.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,LXXVI,l. 13





    O ye gods, grant me this in return for my piety.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,LXXVI,l. 26





    I hate and I love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel
 it and I am in torment.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,LXXXV, l. 1





    Wandering through many countries and over many seas, I come, my brother,
 to these sorrowful obsequies, to present you with the last guerdon of death,
 and speak, though in vain, to your silent ashes.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,CI,l. 1





    And forever, O my brother, hail and farewell!

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Carmina,CI,l. 10





    But you shall not escape my iambics.

 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Fragment



 Sallust
 Gaius Sallustius Crispus
 86-34  B.C.
 

    All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the
 body rather to serve; the one we have in common with the Gods, the other
 with the brutes.

 Sallust
 The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.1





    The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental
 excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

 Sallust
 The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.1





    Covetous of others' possessions, he [Catiline] was prodigal of his own.

 Sallust
 The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.5





    Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in
 the breast, another ready on the tongue. 1

 Sallust
 The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.10

 1 See Euripides




    In truth, prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

 Sallust
 The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.11





    To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

 Sallust
 The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.20





    Thus in the highest position there is the least freedom of action.

 Sallust
 The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.51





    On behalf of their country, their children, their altars, and their
 hearths.

 Sallust
 The War with Catiline [c. 40 b.c.], sec.59





    The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of mortals.

 Sallust
 The War with Jugurtha [c. 41 b.c.], sec.1





    The splendid achievements of the intellect, like the soul, are
 everlasting.

 Sallust
 The War with Jugurtha [c. 41 b.c.], sec.2





    A city for sale and soon to perish if it finds a buyer!

 Sallust
 The War with Jugurtha [c. 41 b.c.], sec.35





    Punic faith.

 Sallust
 The War with Jugurtha [c. 41 b.c.], sec.108





    Experience has shown that to be true which Appius says in his verses,
 that every man is the architect of his own fortune.

 Sallust
 Speech to Caesar on the State, sec. 1



 Virgil
 Publius Vergilius Maro
 70-19  B.C.


    A god has brought us this peace.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,I,l. 6





    To compare great things with small.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,I,l. 23





    Happy old man!

 Virgil
 Eclogues,I,l. 46





    Ah Corydon, Corydon, what madness has caught you?

 Virgil
 Eclogues,II,l. 69





    With Jove I begin.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,III,l. 60





    A sad thing is a wolf in the fold, rain on ripe corn, wind in the trees,
 the anger of Amaryllis.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,III,l. 80





    A snake lurks in the grass.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,III,l. 93





    Let us raise a somewhat loftier strain!

 Virgil
 Eclogues,IV,l. 1





    The great cycle of the ages is renewed. Now Justice returns, returns the
 Golden Age; a new generation now descends from on high.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,IV,l. 5





    We have made you [Priapus] of marble for the time being.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,VII,l. 35





    We are not all capable of everything.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,VIII,l. 63





    Draw Daphnis from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,VIII,l. 68





    Hylax barks in the doorway.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,VIII,l. 107





    Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,IX,l. 50





    Time bears away all things, even our minds.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,IX,l. 51





    Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,IX,l. 64





    This last labor grant me, O Arethusa.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,X,l. 1





    What if Amyntas is dark? Violets are dark, too, and hyacinths.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,X,l. 38





    Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.

 Virgil
 Eclogues,X,l. 69





    Utmost [farthest] Thule.

 Virgil
 Georgics,I,l. 30





    Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

 Virgil
 Georgics,I,l. 40





    O farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear.

 Virgil
 Georgics,I,l. 100





    Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

 Virgil
 Georgics,I,l. 133





    Thrice they tried to pile Ossa on Pelion, yes, and roll up leafy Olympus
 upon Ossa; thrice the Father of Heaven split the mountains apart with his
 thunderbolt. 1

 Virgil
 Georgics,I,l. 281

 1 See Homer




    Frogs in the marsh mud drone their old lament.

 Virgil
 Georgics,I,l. 378





    Not every soil can bear all things.

 Virgil
 Georgics,II,l. 109





    Ah too fortunate farmers, if they knew their own good fortune!

 Virgil
 Georgics,II,l. 458





    May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to
 fame, let me love river and woodland.

 Virgil
 Georgics,II,l. 485





    Happy the man who could search out the causes of things.

 Virgil
 Georgics,II,l. 490





    And no less happy he who knows the rural gods.

 Virgil
 Georgics,II,l. 493





    This life the old Sabines knew long ago; Remus knew it, and his brother.

 Virgil
 Georgics,II,l. 532





    The best day . . . is the first to flee.

 Virgil
 Georgics,III,l. 66





    Years grow cold to love.

 Virgil
 Georgics,III,l. 97





    Time is flying never to return.

 Virgil
 Georgics,III,l. 284





    All aglow is the work.

 Virgil
 Georgics,IV,l. 169





    A sudden madness came down upon the unwary lover [Orpheus]-forgivable,
 surely, if Death knew how to forgive.

 Virgil
 Georgics,IV,l. 488





    Sweet Parthenope nourished me, flourishing in studies of ignoble ease.

 Virgil
 Georgics,IV,l. 563





    I who once played shepherds' songs and in my brash youth sang of you, O
 Tityrus, beneath the spreading beech.

 Virgil
 Georgics,IV,l. 565





    Arms and the man I sing.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 1





    Can heavenly minds yield to such rage?

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 11





    So vast was the struggle to found the Roman state.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 33





    Night, pitch-black, lies upon the deep. 1

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 89

 1 See Genesis 1:2




    O thrice and four times blessed!

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 94





    Fury provides arms.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 150





    You have suffered worse things; God will put an end to these also.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 199





    Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 203





    The organizer a woman.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 364





    Her walk revealed her as a true goddess.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 405





    How happy those whose walls already rise!

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 437





    Here are the tears of things; mortality touches the heart.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 462





    I make no distinction between Trojan and Tyrian.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 574





    A mind aware of its own rectitude.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 604





    As long as rivers shall run down to the sea, or shadows touch the
 mountain slopes, or stars graze in the vault of heaven, so long shall your
 honor, your name, your praises endure.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 607





    I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.I,l. 630





    Unspeakable, O Queen, is the sorrow you bid me renew.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.II,l. 3





    Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.II,l. 49





    From a single crime know the nation.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.II,l. 65





    I shudder to say it.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.II,l. 204





    O fatherland, O Ilium home of the gods, O Troy walls famed in battle!

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.II,l. 241





    Ucalegon's afire next door.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.II,l. 311





    We have been Trojans; Troy has been.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.II,l. 325





    There is but one safety to the vanquished-to hope not safety.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.II,l. 354





    Our foes will provide us with arms.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.II,l. 391





    The gods thought otherwise.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.II,l. 428





    Thrice would I have thrown my arms about her neck, and thrice the ghost
 embraced fled from my grasp: like a fluttering breeze, like a fleeting
 dream.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.II,l. 793





    O accurst craving for gold!

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.III,l. 57





    Rumor flies.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.III,l. 121





    I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.IV,l. 23





    Deep in her breast lives the silent wound.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.IV,l. 67





    A woman is always a fickle, unstable thing.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.IV,l. 569





    Arise from my bones, avenger of these wrongs!

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.IV,l. 625





    Thus, thus, it is joy to pass to the world below.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.IV,l. 660





    Naked in death upon an unknown shore.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.V,l. 871





    Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 95





    It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death
 stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper
 air-there's the rub, the task.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 126





    Faithful Achates.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 158 and elsewhere





    Death's brother, Sleep. 1  2  3  4

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 278

 1 See Homer
 2 See Daniel
 3 See Shakespeare
 4 See Shelley




    The swamp of Styx, by which the gods take oath.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 323





    Unwillingly I left your land, O Queen.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 460





    Had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron and a chest of
 brass, I could not tell all the forms of crime, could not name all the types
 of punishment. 1

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 625

 1 See Homer




    That happy place, the green groves of the dwelling of the blest.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 638





    The spirit within nourishes, and the mind, diffused through all the
 members, sways the mass and mingles with the whole frame.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 726





    Each of us bears his own Hell. 1  2  3  4  5  6

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 743

 1 See Marlowe
 2 See Browne
 3 See Milton
 4 See Eliot
 5 See Sartre
 6 See Lowell




    Others, I take it, will work better with breathing bronze and draw living
 faces from marble; others will plead at law with greater eloquence, or
 measure the pathways of the sky, or forecast the rising stars. Be it your
 concern, Roman, to rule the nations under law (this is your proper skill)
 and establish the way of peace; to spare the conquered and put down the
 mighty from their seat. 1

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 847

 1 See Milton




    Give me handfuls of lilies to scatter.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 883





    There are two gates of Sleep. One is of horn, easy of passage for the
 shades of truth; the other, of gleaming white ivory, permits false dreams to
 ascend to the upper air. 1

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VI,l. 893

 1 See Homer




    Prayed to the Genius of the place.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VII,l. 136





    We descend from Jove; in ancestral Jove Troy's sons rejoice.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VII,l. 219





    If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.VII,l. 312





    An old story, but the glory of it is forever.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.IX,l. 79





    To have died once is enough.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.IX,l. 140





    I cannot bear a mother's tears.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.IX,l. 289





    Good speed to your youthful valor, boy! So shall you scale the stars!

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.IX,l. 641





    Fortune favors the brave.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.X,l. 284





    Dying dreams of his sweet Argos.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.X,l. 782





    Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.XI, l. 283





    His limbs were cold in death; his spirit fled with a groan, indignant, to
 the shades below.

 Virgil
 Aeneid, bk.XII, l. 951





    One composed of many.

 Virgil
 Minor Poems.Moretum, l. 104





    Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says; "I am coming."

 Virgil
 Minor Poems.Copa, l. 38



 Horace
 Quintus Horatius Flaccus
 65-8  B.C.


    How comes it, Maecenas, that no man living is content with the lot that
 either his choice has given him, or chance has thrown in his way, but each
 has praise for those who follow other paths?

 Horace
 Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satirei,l. 1





    The story's about you.

 Horace
 Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satirei,l. 69





    There is measure in all things.

 Horace
 Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satirei,l. 106





    We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who,
 content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. 1
 2

 Horace
 Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satirei,l. 117

 1 See Lucretius
 2 See Bryant




    And all that tribe.

 Horace
 Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satireii, l. 2





    The limbs of a dismembered poet.

 Horace
 Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satireiv, l. 62





    A man without a flaw.

 Horace
 Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satirev, l. 32





    Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

 Horace
 Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satireix, l. 59





    As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.

 Horace
 Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satirex,l. 34





    Simplicity and charm.

 Horace
 Satires, bk.I [35 b.c.], satirex,l. 44





    This used to be among my prayers-a piece of land not so very large, which
 would contain a garden, and near the house a spring of ever-flowing water,
 and beyond these a bit of wood. 1

 Horace
 Satires, bk.II [30 b.c.], satirevi,l. 1

 1 See Pope




    O nights and feasts of the gods!

 Horace
 Satires, bk.II [30 b.c.], satirevi,l. 65





    In Rome you long for the country; in the country-oh inconstant!-you
 praise the distant city to the stars.

 Horace
 Satires, bk.II [30 b.c.], satirevii, l. 28





    Happy the man who far from schemes of business, like the early
 generations of mankind, works his ancestral acres with oxen of his own
 breeding, from all usury free. 1

 Horace
 Epodes [c. 29 b.c.],II, st. 1

 1 See Pope




    You ask me why a soft numbness diffuses all my inmost senses with deep
 oblivion, as though with thirsty throat I'd drained the cup that brings the
 sleep of Lethe. 1

 Horace
 Epodes [c. 29 b.c.],XIV, st. 1

 1 See Keats




    But if you name me among the lyric bards, I shall strike the stars with
 my exalted head.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odei, last lines





    The half of my own soul.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odeiii,l. 8





    No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odeiii,l. 37





    Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and
 at the palaces of kings. 1  2

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odeiv,l. 13

 1 See Publilius Syrus
 2 See Shirley




    Life's brief span forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odeiv,l. 15





 What slender youth, bedewed with liquid odors,
 Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave,
 Pyrrha? For whom bind'st thou
 In wreaths thy golden hair,
 Plain in thy neatness?

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odev, l. 1





    Never despair.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odevii,l. 27





    Tomorrow once again we sail the Ocean Sea.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odevii,last line





    Leave all else to the gods.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odeix,l. 9





    Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each
 day that Fortune grants. 1  2

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odeix,l. 13

 1 See Matthew 6:34
 2 See Publilius Syrus




    Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexi, last line





    Happy, thrice happy and more, are they whom an unbroken bond unites and
 whose love shall know no sundering quarrels so long as they shall live.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexiii, l. 17





    O fairer daughter of a fair mother!

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexvi, l. 1





    The pure in life and free from sin.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexxii, l. 1





    What restraint or limit should there be to grief for one so dear?

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexxiv, l. 1





    Grant me, sound of body and of mind, to pass an old age lacking neither
 honor nor the lyre.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexxxi, last lines





    A grudging and infrequent worshipper of the gods.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexxxiv, l. 1





    Now is the time for drinking, now the time to beat the earth with
 unfettered foot.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexxxvii, l. 1





    Persian luxury, boy, I hate.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexxxviii,l. 1





    Cease your efforts to find where the last rose lingers.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.I [23 b.c.], odexxxviii,l. 3





    In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.II [23 b.c.], odeiii,l. 1





    We are all driven into the same fold.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.II [23 b.c.], odeiii,l. 25





    Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and
 the envy of a palace.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.II [23 b.c.], odex,l. 5





    It is the mountaintop that the lightning strikes.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.II [23 b.c.], odex,l. 11





    Nor does Apollo always stretch the bow.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.II [23 b.c.], odex,l. 19





    Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.II [23 b.c.], odexiv, l. 1





    No lot is altogether happy.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.II [23 b.c.], odexvi, l. 27





    I hate the common herd of men and keep them afar. Let there be sacred
 silence: I, the Muses' priest, sing for girls and boys songs not heard
 before.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odei,l. 1





    Dark Care sits enthroned behind the Knight.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odei,l. 40





    It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odeii, l. 13





    The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken
 from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for
 what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance. 1  2

 Horace
 Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odeiii, l. 1

 1 See Fabius Maximus
 2 See Addison




    Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odeiv, l. 65





    Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more
 worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet
 more corrupt.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odevi, l. 46





    Skilled in the works of both languages.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odeviii, l. 5





    With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odeix, last line





    Gloriously perjured, a maiden famous to all time.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odexi, l. 35





    O fount Bandusian, more sparkling than glass.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odexiii, l. 1





    I would not have borne this in my hot youth when Plancus was consul.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odexiv, l. 27





    A pauper in the midst of wealth.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odexvi, l. 28





    He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to
 day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with
 black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."

 Horace
 Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odexxix, l. 41





    I have built a monument more lasting than bronze.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odexxx,l. 1





    I shall not wholly die.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.III [23 b.c.], odexxx,l. 6





    I am not what I was in the reign of the good Cinara. Forbear, cruel
 mother of sweet loves.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.IV [13 b.c.], odei, l. 3





    The centuries roll back to the ancient age of gold.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.IV [13 b.c.], odeii, l. 39





    We are but dust and shadow.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.IV [13 b.c.], odevii, l. 16





    Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal
 night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.IV [13 b.c.], odeix,l. 25





    It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows
 how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty,
 and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for
 cherished friends or fatherland.

 Horace
 Odes, bk.IV [13 b.c.], odeix,l. 45





    It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. 1  2  3  4

 Horace
 Odes, bk.IV [13 b.c.], odexii, l. 27

 1 See Menander
 2 See Montaigne
 3 See Bacon
 4 See Linnaeus




    I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm
 drives me I turn in for shelter.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistlei,l. 14





    To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is
 the beginning of wisdom.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistlei,l. 41





    Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, by any means money.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistlei,l. 66





    The people are a many-headed beast.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistlei,l. 76





    He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin! 1  2  3

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistleii,l. 40

 1 See Plato
 2 See Aristotle
 3 See Heywood




    The covetous man is ever in want.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistleii,l. 56





    Anger is a short madness.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistleii,l. 62





    Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do
 not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. As for me, when you want a
 good laugh, you will find me, in a fine state, fat and sleek, a true hog of
 Epicurus' herd. 1

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistleiv,l. 13

 1 See Chaucer




    You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistleiv,l. 24





    They change their clime, not their disposition, who run across the sea. 1


 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistlexi,l. 27

 1 See Kipling




    He is not poor who has enough of things to use. If it is well with your
 belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistlexii,l. 4





    Harmony in discord.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistlexii,l. 19





    For joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth
 to death has passed unknown.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistlexvii,l. 9





    It is not everyone that can get to Corinth.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistlexvii,l. 36





    Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistlexviii,l. 71





    It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistlexviii,l. 84





    No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistlexix,l. 2





    O imitators, you slavish herd!

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.I, epistlexix,l. 19





    And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.II [14 b.c.], epistleii,l. 45





    Barefaced poverty drove me to writing verses.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.II [14 b.c.], epistleii,l. 51





    The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.II [14 b.c.], epistleii,l. 55





    I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.II [14 b.c.], epistleii,l. 102





    "Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold
 invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give
 it to others.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 9





    It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why
 does it turn out a water pitcher?

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 21





    It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 25





    Scholars dispute and the case is still before the courts.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 78





    Foot-and-a-half-long words.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 97





 If you wish me to weep, you yourself
 Must first feel grief.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 102





    Taught or untaught, we all scribble poetry.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 117





    The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought
 forth.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 139





    From the egg.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 147





    In the midst of things.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 148





    A praiser of past time.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 173





    Let a play have five acts, neither more nor less.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 189





    Turn the pages of your Greek models night and day.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 268





    He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and
 instructing the reader at the same time.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 343





    Sometimes even good old Homer nods.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 359





    As in painting, so in poetry.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 361





    He has defiled his father's grave.

 Horace
 Epistles, bk.III (Ars Poetica) [c. 8 b.c.],l. 471



 Augustus Caesar
 Augustus Caesar
 63  B.C. - A.D.  14


    Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!

 Augustus Caesar
 From Suetonius, Augustus, sec.23





    More haste, less speed.

 Augustus Caesar
 From Suetonius, Augustus, sec.25





    Well done is quickly done.

 Augustus Caesar
 From Suetonius, Augustus, sec.25





    I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

 Augustus Caesar
 From Suetonius, Augustus, sec.28





    After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more
 power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

 Augustus Caesar
 Res Gestae, 34





    Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

 Augustus Caesar
 From Plutarch, Apothegms, Caesar Augustus



 Livy
 Titus Livius
 59  B.C. - A.D.  17


    We can endure neither our evils nor their cures.

 Livy
 History,Prologue





    Better late than never.

 Livy
 History,bk.IV, sec. 23





    Beyond the Alps lies Italy.

 Livy
 History,bk.XXI, sec. 30



 Publilius Syrus
 Publilius Syrus
 First century  B.C.
 

    As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. 1  2

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 1

 1 See Horace
 2 See Shirley




    He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. 1  2

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 6

 1 See Augustus Caesar
 2 See Anonymous Latin




    To do two things at once is to do neither.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 7





    A god could hardly love and be wise.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 25





    The loss which is unknown is no loss at all. 1

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 38

 1 See Shakespeare




    A good reputation is more valuable than money.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 108





    It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 119





    Many receive advice, few profit by it.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 149





    While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 185





    Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 191





    For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 244





    You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 262





    What is left when honor is lost?

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 265





    A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 267





    Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 274





    When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 275





    When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray. 1

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 277

 1 See Shakespeare




    Fortune is like glass-the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 280





    It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 282





    There are some remedies worse than the disease.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 301





    A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 357





    Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. 1

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 358

 1 See Shakespeare




    The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 388





    Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 402





    No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. 1  2

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 406

 1 See Johnson
 2 See Cowper




    The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 407





    Practice is the best of all instructors.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 439





    He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 459





    Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 467





    It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 469





    It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 499





    The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. 1

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 511

 1 See Shakespeare




    A rolling stone gathers no moss.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 524





    Never promise more than you can perform.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 528





    No one should be judge in his own case.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 545





    Necessity knows no law except to prevail.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 553





    Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. 1  2

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 557

 1 See Chaucer
 2 See Heywood




    We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 559





    It is only the ignorant who despise education.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 571





    Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 580





    It is not every question that deserves an answer.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 581





    No man is happy who does not think himself so.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 584





    Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 593





    You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 596





    Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. 1  2

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 633

 1 See Horace
 2 See Marcus Aurelius




    Money alone sets all the world in motion.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 656





    You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 674





    It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 675





    Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 723





    Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 750





    In every enterprise consider where you would come out.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 777





    It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 780





    No one knows what he can do till he tries.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 786





    It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 835





    Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 847





    Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it. 1

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 865

 1 See Pope




    Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. 1  2  3  4

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 872

 1 See Aristotle
 2 See Cicero
 3 See Ovid
 4 See Heywood




    Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 914





    You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 968





    It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. 1

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 995

 1 See John Ray




    Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one. 1

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 1042

 1 See Shakespeare




    Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 1060





    I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 1070





    Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

 Publilius Syrus
 Maxim 1073



 Dionysius , of Halicarnassus

 c. 54 - c. 7  B.C.


    The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears
 to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.

 Dionysius , of Halicarnassus
 Ars Rhetorica, XI, 2



 Sextus Propertius

 54  B.C. - A.D.  2


    Never change when love has found its home.

 Sextus Propertius
 Elegies,I, i, 36





    The seaman's story is of tempest, the plowman's of his team of bulls; the
 soldier tells his wounds, the shepherd his tale of sheep.

 Sextus Propertius
 Elegies,II,i,43





    Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

 Sextus Propertius
 Elegies,II,i,46





    What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty
 enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

 Sextus Propertius
 Elegies,II,x, 5





    Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

 Sextus Propertius
 Elegies,II,xix, 32





    Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

 Sextus Propertius
 Elegies,II,xxv, 38





    Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

 Sextus Propertius
 Elegies,II,xxxiii, 43





    There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale
 ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.

 Sextus Propertius
 Elegies,IV, vii, 1



 Albius Tibullus

 c. 54 - c. 19  B.C.


    May I look on you when my last hour comes; may I hold you, as I sink,
 with my failing hand.

 Albius Tibullus
 Elegies,I, i, 59





    Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers.

 Albius Tibullus
 Elegies,III,vi, 49





    Jove the Rain-giver.

 Albius Tibullus
 Elegies,III,vii, 26



 Ovid
 Publius Ovidius Naso
 43  B.C. - A.D.  c. 18


    I have faith that yields to none, and ways without reproach, and
 unadorned simplicity, and blushing modesty.

 Ovid
 Amores,I,iii, 13





    The rest who does not know?

 Ovid
 Amores,I,v, 25





    Every lover is a warrior, and Cupid has his camps.

 Ovid
 Amores,I,ix, 1





    Run slowly, horses of the night.

 Ovid
 Amores,I,xiii, 39





    Stay far hence, far hence, you prudes!

 Ovid
 Amores,II, i, 3





    So I can't live either without you or with you.

 Ovid
 Amores,III, xi, 39





    They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.

 Ovid
 Ars Amatoria,I,99





    It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us
 believe there are. 1  2

 Ovid
 Ars Amatoria,I,637

 1 See Tillotson
 2 See Voltaire




    To be loved, be lovable.

 Ovid
 Ars Amatoria,II,107





    Nothing is stronger than habit.

 Ovid
 Ars Amatoria,II,345





    Perhaps too my name will be joined to theirs [the names of famous poets].

 Ovid
 Ars Amatoria,III, 339





    Now there are fields of corn where Troy once was.

 Ovid
 Heroides, I, i, 2





    Chaos] A rough, unordered mass of things.

 Ovid
 Metamorphoses,I, 7





    Your lot is mortal: not mortal is what you desire.

 Ovid
 Metamorphoses,II,56





    You will be safest in the middle.

 Ovid
 Metamorphoses,II,137





    I am Actaeon: recognize your master!

 Ovid
 Metamorphoses,III, 230





    The cause is hidden, but the result is well known.

 Ovid
 Metamorphoses,IV,287





    We can learn even from our enemies.

 Ovid
 Metamorphoses,IV,428





    I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

 Ovid
 Metamorphoses,VII, 20





    The gods have their own rules.

 Ovid
 Metamorphoses,IX, 500





    Time the devourer of all things.

 Ovid
 Metamorphoses,XV,234





    And now I have finished a work that neither the wrath of love, nor fire,
 nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy.

 Ovid
 Metamorphoses,XV,871





    Resist beginnings; the prescription comes too late when the disease has
 gained strength by long delays. 1

 Ovid
 Remedia Amoris,91

 1 See Persius




    Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you'll
 be safe then.

 Ovid
 Remedia Amoris,143





    Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

 Ovid
 Tristia,I,i, 39





    So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life
 becomes clouded you will be alone. 1  2  3  4

 Ovid
 Tristia,I,ix, 5

 1 See Aristotle
 2 See Cicero
 3 See Publilius Syrus
 4 See Heywood




    Whatever I tried to write was verse.

 Ovid
 Tristia,IV, x, 26





    It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

 Ovid
 Ex Ponto, II,iii, 14





    Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character
 and permits it not to be cruel.

 Ovid
 Ex Ponto, II,ix, 47



 Phaedrus

 fl. c.  A.D.  8
 

    Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

 Phaedrus
 Fables, bk.I, fable2, l. 31





    He was the author, our hand finished it.

 Phaedrus
 Fables, bk.I, fable6, l. 20





    That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to
 others, I will show in a few lines.

 Phaedrus
 Fables, bk.I, fable9, l. 1





    No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

 Phaedrus
 Fables, bk.I, fable18, l. 1





    It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that
 they may not be seized by the crocodiles.

 Phaedrus
 Fables, bk.I, fable25, l. 3





    Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

 Phaedrus
 Fables, bk.I, fable26, l. 12





    Come of it what may, as Sinon said.

 Phaedrus
 Fables, bk.III, prologue, l. 27





    Things are not always what they seem.

 Phaedrus
 Fables, bk.IV, 2, l. 5





    To add insult to injury.

 Phaedrus
 Fables, bk.V, l. 3





    Once lost, Jupiter himself cannot bring back opportunity.

 Phaedrus
 Fables, bk.VII, l. 4



 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 c. 4  B.C. - A.D.  65
 

    What fools these mortals be.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,1, 3





    It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that
 is poor.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,2, 2





    Love of bustle is not industry.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,3, 5





    Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were
 listening.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,10, 5





    The best ideas are common property.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,12, 11





    Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is
 within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to
 live long.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,22, 17





    A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,30, 3





    Man is a reasoning animal.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,41, 8





    That most knowing of persons-gossip.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,43, 1





    It is quality rather than quantity that matters. 1

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,45, 1

 1 See Anonymous Latin




    You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives
 praise.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,52, 12





    Nothing is so certain as that the evils of idleness can be shaken off by
 hard work.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,56, 9





    Not lost, but gone before.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,63, 16





    All art is but imitation of nature.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,65, 3





    It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,84, 13





    The pilot . . . who has been able to say, "Neptune, you shall never sink
 this ship except on an even keel," has fulfilled the requirements of his
 art.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,85, 33





    I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,87, 1





    It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,88, 45





    Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,95, 1





    We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter
 and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of
 slaughtering whole peoples? 1  2  3

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,95, 30

 1 See Edward Young
 2 See Porteus
 3 See J. R. Lowell




    A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is
 willing to endure rough treatment.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Epistles,123, 3





    Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. 1

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Moral Essays.On Providence, 5, 9

 1 See Beaumont and Fletcher




    Time discovers truth.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Moral Essays.On Anger, 2,22





    Whom they have injured they also hate.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Moral Essays.On Anger, 2,33





    I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper
 judge of the man.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Moral Essays.On the Happy Life, 2, 2





    There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Moral Essays.On Tranquillity of the Mind, 17, 10





    A great fortune is a great slavery.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Moral Essays.To Polybius on Consolation, 6, 5





    Wherever the Roman conquers, there he dwells.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Moral Essays.To Helvia on Consolation, 7, 7





    He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on
 his debt.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 On Benefits, bk. II, 22, 1





    You roll my log, and I will roll yours.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Apocolocyntosis, sec. 9





    Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Hercules Furens, 1, 1,84





    Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. 1

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Hercules Furens, 1, 1,255

 1 See Harington




    An age will come after many years when the Ocean will loose the chains o
 things, and a huge land lie revealed; when Tiphys will disclose new worlds
 and Thule 1  2  no more be the ultimate.

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Medea, l. 374

 1 See Virgil
 2 See Thomson




    A good mind possesses a kingdom. 1

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Thyestes, 380

 1 See Dyer




    Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb. 1

 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Hippolytus, II, 3, 607

 1 See Ralegh


 Marcus Manilius

 First century  A.D.


    [Human reason] freed men's minds from wondering at portents by wresting
 from Jupiter his bolts and power of thunder, and ascribing to the winds the
 noise and to the clouds the flame.

 Marcus Manilius
 Astronomica, bk.I, l. 102





    Who could know heaven save by heaven's gift and discover God save one who
 shares himself in the divine? 1

 Marcus Manilius
 Astronomica, bk.II, l. 115

 1 See Hippocrates




    At birth our death is sealed, and our end is consequent upon our
 beginning. 1

 Marcus Manilius
 Astronomica, bk.IV,l. 16

 1 See The Wisdom of Solomon 5:13




    Scorn not your powers as if proportionate to the smallness of the mind:
 its power has no bounds.

 Marcus Manilius
 Astronomica, bk.IV,l. 923



 Caligula
 Gaius Caesar
 Gaius Caesar
  A.D.  12-41


    Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].

 Caligula
 From Suetonius, Gaius Caligula, sec. 30



 Onasander

 fl.  A.D.  49


    Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in
 the man who is not too young.

 Onasander
 The General,ch. 1, sec. 10





    Envy is a pain of mind that successful men cause their neighbors.

 Onasander
 The General,ch. 42, par. 25



 Pliny the Elder
 Gaius Plinius Secundus
  A.D.  23-79
 

    In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that
 some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from
 former works, without making acknowledgment.

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.I, dedication, sec. 22





    Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out
 small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part
 which is rough.

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.II, sec. 234





    It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to man a
 kind parent or a merciless stepmother.

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.VII, sec.1





    Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked
 earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.VII, sec.2





    To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man
 before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a
 miracle of precocity.

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.VII, sec.2





    Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without
 being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do
 nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep. 1

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.VII, sec.4

 1 See Tennyson




    With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man. 1  2

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.VII, sec.5

 1 See Burns
 2 See Wordsworth




    Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our
 knowledge for the first time? 1  How many things, too, are looked upon as
 quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.VII, sec.6

 1 See Tacitus




    The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten
 parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men
 there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.VII, sec.8





    All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and
 the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had
 been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys
 them the moment it enters their throat.

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.VII, sec.15





    It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head
 to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the
 middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.VII, sec.77





    There is always something new out of Africa.

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.VIII, sec.17





    When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.VIII, sec.103





    Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger
 than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them
 gradually into proper shape.

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.VIII, sec.126





    The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the
 most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to
 evil designs.

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.XVIII, sec.26





    The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.XVIII, sec.31





    With a grain of salt.

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.XXIII, sec. 8





    Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers
 are the most effectual?

 Pliny the Elder
 Natural History, bk.XXVIII, sec. 23



 Persius
 Aulus Persius Flaccus
  A.D.  34-62


    The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.

 Persius
 Satires,prologue, l. 10





    Tell, priests, what is gold doing in a holy place?

 Persius
 Satires,II, l. 69





    Let them look upon virtue and pine because they have lost her.

 Persius
 Satires,III,l. 38





    Meet the disease at its first stage.

 Persius
 Satires,III,l. 64



 Gaius Petronius
 Petronius Arbiter
 died  A.D.  c. 66
 

    He has joined the great majority.

 Gaius Petronius
 Satyricon, sec.42





    A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.

 Gaius Petronius
 Satyricon, sec.43





    One good turn deserves another.

 Gaius Petronius
 Satyricon, sec.45





    A man must have his faults.

 Gaius Petronius
 Satyricon, sec.45





    Not worth his salt.

 Gaius Petronius
 Satyricon, sec.57





    My heart was in my mouth.

 Gaius Petronius
 Satyricon, sec.62





    Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined. 1

 Gaius Petronius
 Satyricon, sec.94

 1 See Petrarch




    The studied spontaneity of Horace.

 Gaius Petronius
 Satyricon, sec.118





    Natural curls.

 Gaius Petronius
 Satyricon, sec.126



 Quintilian
 Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
 born  A.D.  c. 35


    We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

 Quintilian
 De Institutione Oratoria, bk.I, 8, 14





    A liar should have a good memory.

 Quintilian
 De Institutione Oratoria, bk.IV, 2, 91





    Vain hopes are often like the dreams of those who wake.

 Quintilian
 De Institutione Oratoria, bk.VI, 2, 30





    For it is feeling and force of imagination that makes us eloquent.

 Quintilian
 De Institutione Oratoria, bk.X,7, 15





    Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

 Quintilian
 De Institutione Oratoria, bk.X,21



 Nero Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus

  A.D.  37-68


    What an artist dies with me!

 Nero Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
 From Suetonius, Nero, sec. 49



 Lucan
 Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
  A.D.  39-65


    If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.

 Lucan
 The Civil War, bk.I,128





    There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

 Lucan
 The Civil War, bk.I,135





    Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants
 themselves.

 Lucan
 The Civil War, bk.II,10 (Didacus Stella)





    Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature.

 Lucan
 The Civil War, bk.II,381





    Thinking nothing done while anything remained to be done.

 Lucan
 The Civil War, bk.II,657





    More was lost than mere life and existence.

 Lucan
 The Civil War, bk.VII, 639





    We all praise fidelity; but the true friend pays the penalty when he
 supports those whom Fortune crushes.

 Lucan
 The Civil War, bk.VIII, 485





    A name illustrious and revered by nations.

 Lucan
 The Civil War, bk.IX,203





    Is the dwelling place of God anywhere but in the earth and sea, the air
 and sky, and virtue? Why seek we further for deities? Whatever you see,
 whatever you touch, that is Jupiter.

 Lucan
 The Civil War, bk.IX,578





    The very ruins have been destroyed.

 Lucan
 The Civil War, bk.IX,969



 Longinus

 First century


    It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third,
 in which he [Lucan] meant to rise still higher, is perfect bombast.

 Longinus
 On the Sublime, sec.3





    Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.

 Longinus
 On the Sublime, sec.9





    In the Odyssey one may liken Homer to the setting sun, of which the
 grandeur remains without the intensity.

 Longinus
 On the Sublime, sec.9



 Dio Chrysostom
 Dio Cocceianus
  A.D.  c. 40 - c. 120
 

    Diogenes: The man I know not, for I am not acquainted with his mind.

 Dio Chrysostom
 Fourth Discourse, On Kingship, ch. 17





    Idleness and lack of occupation are the best things in the world to ruin
 the foolish.

 Dio Chrysostom
 Tenth Discourse, On Servants, ch. 7





    Most men are so completely corrupted by opinion that they would rather be
 notorious for the greatest calamities than suffer no ill and be unknown.

 Dio Chrysostom
 Eleventh, or Trojan, Discourse, ch. 6



 Martial
 Marcus Valerius Martialis
  A.D.  c. 40 - c. 104
 

    My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

 Martial
 Epigrams,I,4





    Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

 Martial
 Epigrams,I,15





    Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is
 made, my friend.

 Martial
 Epigrams,I,16





    I don't like you, Sabidius, I can't say why; But I can say this: I don't
 like you, Sabidius. 1

 Martial
 Epigrams,I,32

 1 See Tom Brown




    Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own.

 Martial
 Epigrams,I,91





    You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you
 yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

 Martial
 Epigrams,I,110





    Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

 Martial
 Epigrams,III,42





    The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems
 enshrined in its own nectar.

 Martial
 Epigrams,IV,32





    They praise those verses, yes, but read something else.

 Martial
 Epigrams,IV,49





    You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't
 say no.

 Martial
 Epigrams,IV,71





    Our days pass by, and are scored against us.

 Martial
 Epigrams,V,20





    What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

 Martial
 Epigrams,V,28





    A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

 Martial
 Epigrams,V,73





 You puff the poets of other days,
 The living you deplore.
 Spare me the accolade: your praise
 Is not worth dying for. 1  2

 Martial
 Epigrams,VIII,69

 1 See Hazlitt
 2 See Louis Edwin Thayer




    Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with
 pleasure.

 Martial
 Epigrams,X,23





    Neither fear your death's day nor long for it. 1

 Martial
 Epigrams,X,47

 1 See Milton




    You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burro.

 Martial
 Epigrams,XII,36





    You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no
 living with you, or without you.

 Martial
 Epigrams,XII,47





    The country in town.

 Martial
 Epigrams,XII,57





    I know these are nothing.

 Martial
 Epigrams,XIII, 2



 Titus Vespasianus

  A.D.  c. 41-81


    Friends, I have lost a day.

 Titus Vespasianus
 From Suetonius, Titus, sec. 8



 Plutarch

  A.D.  46-120


    As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the
 world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect
 that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and
 unapproachable bogs.

 Plutarch
 Lives,Aemilius Paulus, sec.5





    About Theseus began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."

 Plutarch
 Lives,Aemilius Paulus, sec.29





    A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who
 demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?"
 holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made.
 "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."

 Plutarch
 Lives,Aemilius Paulus, sec.29





    Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the
 fox's.

 Plutarch
 Lives,Lysander, sec.7





    Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making
 their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of
 individuals are in infecting the city at large.

 Plutarch
 Lives,Lysander, sec.17





    As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan.

 Plutarch
 Lives,Lysander, sec.20





    Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which
 cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken
 little by little.

 Plutarch
 Lives,Sertorius, sec. 16





    Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance
 of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look
 down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself,
 and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.

 Plutarch
 Lives,Eumenes, sec. 9





    Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving
 every passion and discovering every frailty.

 Plutarch
 Lives,Demosthenes and Cicero, sec. 3





    Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create
 harmony, must investigate discord.

 Plutarch
 Lives,Demetrius, sec. 1





    It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man you will learn to
 limp.

 Plutarch
 Morals.Of the Training of Children





    The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

 Plutarch
 Morals.Of the Training of Children





    It is indeed desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our
 ancestors.

 Plutarch
 Morals.Of the Training of Children





    Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

 Plutarch
 Morals.Of the Training of Children





    It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak,
 though never so well.

 Plutarch
 Morals.Of the Training of Children





    An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

 Plutarch
 Morals.Of the Training of Children





    He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of
 reach.

 Plutarch
 Morals.Of Garrulity





    All men whilst they are awake are in one common world; but each of them,
 when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

 Plutarch
 Morals.Of Superstition





    That proverbial saying, "Bad news travels fast and far."

 Plutarch
 Morals.Of Inquisitiveness





    Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever
 met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

 Plutarch
 Morals.Of Hearing, sec. 6





    Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense
 that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they
 thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were
 articulated next summer.

 Plutarch
 Morals.Of Man's Progress in Virtue





    When the candles are out all women are fair.

 Plutarch
 Morals.Conjugal Precepts





    Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.

 Plutarch
 Morals.Whether 'Twas Rightfully Said, Live Concealed





    The great god Pan is dead.

 Plutarch
 Morals.Why the Oracles Cease to Give Answers





    I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.

 Plutarch
 Morals.Of Isis and Osiris





    For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least
 human. 1  2  3

 Plutarch
 Morals.Against Colotes

 1 See Anonymous Latin
 2 See Shirley
 3 See Pope




    Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the
 soul of this world.

 Plutarch
 Morals.Platonic Questions



 Epictetus

 c. 50-120
 

    To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the
 rational is endurable.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.I, ch.2





    When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to
 say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your
 genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are
 doing?

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.I, ch.14





    No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a
 fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be
 time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.I, ch.15





    Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence
 to a humble and grateful mind.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.I, ch.16





    Were I a nightingale, I would sing like a nightingale; were I a swan,
 like a swan. But as it is, I am a rational being, therefore I must sing
 hymns of praise to God.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.I, ch.16





    Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence
 proceed to greater.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.I, ch.18





    It is difficulties that show what men are.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.I, ch.24





    The good or ill of man lies within his own will.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.I, ch.25





    In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;
 but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.I, ch.26





    Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they
 appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not
 appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all
 these cases is the wise man's task.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.I, ch.27





    Only the educated are free.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.II, ch.1





    The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a
 matter of indifference.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.II, ch.5





    Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? "What sinews are those?"-A
 will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful
 resolutions; unerring decisions.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.II, ch.8





    What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of
 self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which
 he thinks he already knows.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.II, ch.17





    Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make
 a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something
 else.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.II, ch.18





    Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say,
 "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you
 represent. Let me try you."

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.II, ch.18





    There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.II, ch.21





    Two principles we should always have ready-that there is nothing good or
 evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow
 them.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.III, ch.10





    First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

 Epictetus
 Discourses, bk.III, ch.23





    Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As
 something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand,
 take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not
 come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it
 comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward
 office, so toward wealth.

 Epictetus
 The Encheiridion,15





    Where do you suppose he got that high brow?

 Epictetus
 The Encheiridion,22





    Everything has two handles-by one of which it ought to be carried and by
 the other not.

 Epictetus
 The Encheiridion,43



 Juvenal
 Decimus Junius Juvenalis
 c. 50 - c. 130


    Honesty is praised and starves.

 Juvenal
 Satires,I,l. 74





    If nature refuses, indignation will produce verses.

 Juvenal
 Satires,I,l. 79





    All the doings of mankind, their wishes, fears, anger, pleasures, joys,
 and varied pursuits, form the motley subject of my book.

 Juvenal
 Satires,I,l. 85





    Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove.

 Juvenal
 Satires,II,l. 63





    No one becomes depraved in a moment.

 Juvenal
 Satires,II,l. 83





    Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician, painter, trainer, soothsayer,
 ropedancer, physician, magician-he knows everything. Tell the hungry little
 Greek to go to heaven; he'll go. 1

 Juvenal
 Satires,III,l. 76

 1 See Dryden




    Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

 Juvenal
 Satires,III,l. 152





    It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

 Juvenal
 Satires,III,l. 164





    We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

 Juvenal
 Satires,III,l. 182





    A rare bird on earth, comparable to a black swan.

 Juvenal
 Satires,VI,l. 165





    I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of reason.

 Juvenal
 Satires,VI,l. 223





    We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than
 war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.

 Juvenal
 Satires,VI,l. 292





    But who is to guard the guards themselves?

 Juvenal
 Satires,VI,l. 347





    An inveterate and incurable itch for writing besets many, and grows old
 in their sick hearts.

 Juvenal
 Satires,VII,l. 51





    Nobility is the one and only virtue.

 Juvenal
 Satires,VIII,l. 20





    Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of
 living to lose what makes life worth having.

 Juvenal
 Satires,VIII,l. 83





    The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all
 else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two
 things-bread and circuses!

 Juvenal
 Satires,X,l. 79





    Put Hannibal in the scales.

 Juvenal
 Satires,X,l. 147





    You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

 Juvenal
 Satires,X,l. 356





    For revenge is always the delight of a mean spirit, of a weak and petty
 mind! You may immediately draw proof of this-that no one rejoices more in
 revenge than a woman.

 Juvenal
 Satires,XIII, l. 189





    The greatest reverence is due the young.

 Juvenal
 Satires,XIV, 47



 Cornelius Tacitus

 c. 55 - c. 117


    The images of the most illustrious families . . . were carried before it
 [the bier of Julia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for
 that reason they shone with preeminent luster. 1

 Cornelius Tacitus
 Annals, bk.III, 76

 1 See Lord John Russell




    He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.

 Cornelius Tacitus
 Annals, bk.VI, 39





    What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

 Cornelius Tacitus
 Annals, bk.XI, 24





    Of Petronius] Arbiter of taste.

 Cornelius Tacitus
 Annals, bk.XVI, 18





    It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes
 and say what one thinks.

 Cornelius Tacitus
 Histories, bk.I,1





    Of Servius Galba] He seemed more important than a private citizen while
 he was a private citizen, and in the opinion of all he was capable of
 rule-if he had not ruled.

 Cornelius Tacitus
 Histories, bk.I,49





    The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other
 passion. 1

 Cornelius Tacitus
 Histories, bk.IV,6

 1 See Milton




    The gods are on the side of the stronger.

 Cornelius Tacitus
 Histories, bk.IV,17





    Whatever is unknown is taken for marvelous; but now the limits of Britain
 are laid bare.

 Cornelius Tacitus
 Agricola, sec.30





    Where they make a desert, they call it peace.

 Cornelius Tacitus
 Agricola, sec.30





    Think of your forefathers and posterity.

 Cornelius Tacitus
 Agricola, sec.32





    Fortune favored him . . . in the opportune moment of his death.

 Cornelius Tacitus
 Agricola, sec.45



 Pliny the Younger
 Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
 c. 61 - c. 112


    Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon
 two legs."

 Pliny the Younger
 Letters, bk.I, letter5





    There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me
 know just this-that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good
 old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.

 Pliny the Younger
 Letters, bk.I, letter11





    An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in
 pursuit.

 Pliny the Younger
 Letters, bk.II, letter 15





    He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good
 might be got out of it."

 Pliny the Younger
 Letters, bk.III, letter 5





    This expression of ours, "Father of a family."

 Pliny the Younger
 Letters, bk.V, letter 19





    That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

 Pliny the Younger
 Letters, bk.VIII, letter9





    Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea
 are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. . . . We put
 off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity
 of seeing when we please.

 Pliny the Younger
 Letters, bk.VIII, letter20





    His only fault is that he has no fault.

 Pliny the Younger
 Letters, bk.IX, letter 26



 Suetonius
 Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
 c. 70 - c. 140


    Hail, Emperor, we who are about to die salute you.

 Suetonius
 Life of Claudius, 21



 Hadrian
 Publius Aelius Hadrianus
 76-138


    Little soul, wandering, gentle guest and companion of the body, into what
 places will you now go, pale, stiff, and naked, no longer sporting as you
 did!

 Hadrian
 Ad Animam Suam



 Chang Heng

 78-139
 

    Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.

 Chang Heng
 Saying



 Lucius Annaeus Florus

 fl. 125


    Each year new consuls and proconsuls are made; but not every year is a
 king or a poet born.

 Lucius Annaeus Florus
 De Qualitate Vitae, fragment 8



 Ptolemy
 Claudius Ptolemaeus
 c. 100-178


    Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of
 men.

 Ptolemy
 Tetrabiblos, bk.I, sec. 1





    The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events
 following birth.

 Ptolemy
 Tetrabiblos, bk.III, sec. 10





    As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so
 honor belongs to those of the soul.

 Ptolemy
 Tetrabiblos, bk.IV, sec.1





    There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so
 disposed to one another either by preference or by need or through pleasure
 and pain.

 Ptolemy
 Tetrabiblos, bk.IV, sec.7



 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

 121-180
 

    This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a
 little breath, and the part which governs.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,II,2





    You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as
 though it were your last. 1  2  3

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,II,5

 1 See Matthew 6:34
 2 See Horace
 3 See Publilius Syrus




    Remember that no man loses other life than that which he lives, nor lives
 other than that which he loses.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,II,14





    Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its
 cycle.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,II,14





    The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose
 one and the same thing.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,II,14





    As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the
 fame that comes after is oblivion.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,II,17





    A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,III,5





    Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break
 your word or lose your self-respect.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,III,7





    By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IV,3





    The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IV,3





    Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IV,5





    Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if
 you watch narrowly. 1  2

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IV,10

 1 See Dryden
 2 See Pope




    How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or
 does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IV,18





    Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and
 is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse
 nor the better for being praised.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IV,20





    All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well.
 1  Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for
 me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things
 come of you, have their being in you, and return to you. 2

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IV,23

 1 See Zeno
 2 See I Chronicles 29:14




    "Let your occupations be few," says the sage, "if you would lead a
 tranquil life."

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IV,24





    Love the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IV,31





    There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the
 performance of every act of life.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IV,32





    All is ephemeral-fame and the famous as well.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IV,35





    Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun
 and what they cleave to.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IV,38





    Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no
 sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its
 place, and this too will be swept away. 1  2

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IV,43

 1 See Isaac Watts
 2 See Anonymous




    All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the
 crop in summer.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IV,44





    Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo,
 tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee,
 live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive,
 extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IV,48





    In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought
 be present: "I am rising to a man's work."

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,V,1





    A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine
 to bear grapes again in season. 1

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,V,6

 1 See Matthew 6:3




    Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,V,18





    Live with the gods.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,V,27





    Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its
 worth escape thee.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,VI,3





    The controlling intelligence understands its own nature, and what it
 does, and whereon it works.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,VI,5





    Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible;
 but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,VI,19





    What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,VI,54





    One universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one
 principle of being, and one law, the reason, shared by all thinking
 creatures, and one truth.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,VII,9





    It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him. 1

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,VII,22

 1 See Proverbs 25:21




    Very little is needed to make a happy life.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,VII,67





    To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be
 nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,VIII,16





    Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of
 practice, or of interpretation.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,VIII,22





    Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,VIII,51





    Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even
 death is one of the things that Nature wills.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IX,3





    A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one
 who has done something. 1

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IX,5

 1 See Book of Common Prayer




    Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its
 own control.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IX,7





    All things are the same-familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance,
 coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those
 whom we have buried.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,IX,14





    Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
 Meditations,X, 5



 Galen

 129-199


    The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing
 detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

 Galen
 On the Natural Faculties,
 bk.I, sec.2





    Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound
 knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

 Galen
 On the Natural Faculties,
 bk.I, sec.13





    Nature's artistic skill.

 Galen
 On the Natural Faculties,
 bk.I, sec.13





    It was, of course, a grand and impressive thing to do, to mistrust the
 obvious, and to pin one's faith in things which could not be seen!

 Galen
 On the Natural Faculties,
 bk.I, sec.13





    Praxiteles and Phidias . . . were unable to . . . reach and handle all
 portions of the material. It is not so, however, with nature. Every part of
 a bone she makes bone, every part of the flesh she makes flesh, and so with
 fat and all the rest; there is no part she has not touched, elaborated, and
 embellished.

 Galen
 On the Natural Faculties,
 bk.II, sec. 3





    That which is grows, while that which is not becomes.

 Galen
 On the Natural Faculties,
 bk.II, sec. 3



 Diogenes Laertius

 fl. c. 200


    Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

 Diogenes Laertius
 Cleobulus, 4





    Time is the image of eternity.

 Diogenes Laertius
 Plato,41





    There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our
 constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from
 custom is the unwritten law.

 Diogenes Laertius
 Plato,51



 Tertullian
 Quintus Septimius Tertullianus
 c. 160-240


    O witness of the soul naturally Christian.

 Tertullian
 Apologeticus,17





    See how these Christians love one another.

 Tertullian
 Apologeticus,39





    We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is
 seed.

 Tertullian
 Apologeticus,50





    Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one
 soul though many tongues. Every country has its own language, yet the
 subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere.

 Tertullian
 Testimony of the Soul





    Mother Church.

 Tertullian
 Ad Martyras, 1





    Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

 Tertullian
 Adversus Valentinianos,1





    Truth does not blush.

 Tertullian
 Adversus Valentinianos,3





    It is to be believed because it is absurd.

 Tertullian
 De Carne Christi,5





    It is certain because it is impossible.

 Tertullian
 De Carne Christi,5





    Out of the frying pan into the fire.

 Tertullian
 De Carne Christi,6





    One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man.

 Tertullian
 Ad Scapulam, 2





    It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

 Tertullian
 Ad Scapulam, 2





    I must dispel vanity with vanity.

 Tertullian
 Adversus Marcionem, IV, 30



 The Sayings of Jesus
 Third century


    Jesus saith, Wherever there are two, they are not without God, and
 wherever there is one alone, I say, I am with him. 1  Raise the stone, and
 there thou shalt find Me, cleave the wood and there am I. 2

 The Sayings of Jesus
 The Oxyrhynchus Papyri,
 PartI [1898], no. 1, [Lgr ][Ogr ][Ggr ][Igr ][Agr ] [Igr ][EEgr ][Sgr ][Ogr
 ][Ugr ] [Logia
 Iesou], logion 5

 1 See Matthew 18:20
 2 See Van Dyke




    Jesus saith, Ye ask who are those that draw us to the kingdom, if the
 kingdom is in Heaven? . . . The fowls of the air, and all beasts that are
 under the earth or upon the earth, and the fishes of the sea, these are they
 which draw you, and the kingdom of Heaven is within you. 1

 The Sayings of Jesus
 The Oxyrhynchus Papyri,
 PartIV [1904], no. 654, New Sayings of Jesus, second saying

 1 See Luke 17:21


 St. Cyprian

 d. 258


    He cannot have God for his father who has not the Church for his Mother.

 St. Cyprian
 De Unitate Ecclesiae [251], ch. 6





    There is no salvation outside the Church.

 St. Cyprian
 Letter 73 [c. 256]



 Plotinus

 205-270


    All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn
 about one thing from another.

 Plotinus
 Enneads,
 bk. II, treatise iii, sec.7





    One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature,
 one from all.

 Plotinus
 Enneads,
 bk. II, treatise iii, sec.8



 Longus

 Third century


    There was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall
 there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can
 see.

 Longus
 Daphnis and Chloe, proem, ch.2





    He is so poor that he could not keep a dog.

 Longus
 Daphnis and Chloe, proem, ch.15



 Constantine
 Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus
 c. 288-337
 

    In this sign shalt thou conquer.

 Constantine
 From Eusebius, Life of Constantine, I, 28



 Ammianus Marcellinus

 c. 330-395


    Rose among thorns.

 Ammianus Marcellinus
 History, bk. XVI, ch. 17



 Julian The Apostate
 Flavius Claudius Julianus
 332-363
 

    You have conquered, Galilean.

 Julian The Apostate
 From Theodoret, Church History, III, 20



 St. Ambrose

 c. 340-397


    When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live
 as they live elsewhere.

 St. Ambrose
 Advice to St. Augustine. From Jeremy Taylor,
 Ductor Dubitantium [1660], I, 1, 5



 St. Jerome

 c. 342-420
 

    A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 1





    Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 3





    The friendship that can cease has never been real.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 3





    It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 7





    Love knows nothing of order.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 7





    The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's
 only God is their belly, 1  that they live only for the present, and that
 the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 7

 1 See Philippians 3:19




    An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the
 blind straight to the pit. 1  The ruler is like the ruled.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 7

 1 See Matthew 15:14




    No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 14





    If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the
 channel, but of the source.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 17





    You are a Ciceronian, not a Christian.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 22





    It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 27





    Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 31





    While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 40





    The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the
 means by the end. 1

 St. Jerome
 Letter 48

 1 See Matthew Prior




    Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church
 someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?"

 St. Jerome
 Letter 48





    Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of
 business.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 52





    A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 52





    No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in
 a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 52





    That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked
 out to dinner never refuses to go.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 52





    The best almoner is he who keeps back nothing for himself.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 52





    It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 53





    Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or
 nets twice.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 54





    Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her
 maids.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 54





    The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the
 secrets of the heart.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 54





    The scars of others should teach us caution.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 54





    When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 58





    Small minds can never handle great themes.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 60





    The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing
 our necks.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 60





    Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy
 ourselves eternal.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 60





    Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has
 been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

 St. Jerome
 Letter 107





    The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 112





    Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker
 presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 118





    For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils
 of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 125





    It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 125





    The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we
 inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our
 eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 125





    Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than
 hide it in a purse.

 St. Jerome
 Letter 127





    The privileges of a few do not make common law.

 St. Jerome
 Exposition on Jona





    Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

 St. Jerome
 On the Epistle to the Ephesians



 St. John Chrysostom
 St. John Chrysostom
 c. 345-407


    Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

 St. John Chrysostom
 De Sacerdotio [c. 390]





    No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

 St. John Chrysostom
 Letter to Olympia



 Vegetius
 Flavius Vegetius Renatus
 fl. c. 375


    Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

 Vegetius
 De Rei Militari, III, prologue



 St. Augustine

 354-430


    Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

 St. Augustine
 De Libero Arbitrio [388-395]





    The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

 St. Augustine
 Confessions [397-401],I, 7





    To Carthage I came, where all about me resounded a caldron of dissolute
 loves.

 St. Augustine
 Confessions [397-401],III,1





    I was in love with loving.

 St. Augustine
 Confessions [397-401],III,1





    In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

 St. Augustine
 Confessions [397-401],III,4





    Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

 St. Augustine
 Confessions [397-401],VIII,7





    Take up, read! Take up, read!

 St. Augustine
 Confessions [397-401],VIII,12





    Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I
 loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I
 searched for you.

 St. Augustine
 Confessions [397-401],X,27





    Give what you command, and command what you will.

 St. Augustine
 Confessions [397-401],X,29





    Hear the other side.

 St. Augustine
 De Duabus Animabus, XIV, 2





    I would not have believed the gospel had not the authority of the Church
 moved me.

 St. Augustine
 Contra Epistulam Fundamenti[c. 410], ch. 5





    Necessity has no law. 1  2

 St. Augustine
 Soliloquiorum. Animae ad Deum [c. 410], 2

 1 See Publilius Syrus
 2 See Oliver Cromwell




    We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
 1  2

 St. Augustine
 Sermons,3

 1 See Longfellow
 2 See Tennyson




    Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.

 St. Augustine
 Sermons,58





    The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

 St. Augustine
 Sermons,64





    Rome has spoken; the case is closed.

 St. Augustine
 Sermons,131





    He who created you without you will not justify you without you.

 St. Augustine
 Sermons,169





    The most glorious city of God.

 St. Augustine
 City of God [415], I, preface



 St. Vincent , of Lerins

 died c. 450


    That faith is catholic] which has been believed always, everywhere, and
 by all.

 St. Vincent , of Lerins
 Commonitorium, ch.2





    Every word [of Tertullian] almost was a sentence; every sentence a
 victory.

 St. Vincent , of Lerins
 Commonitorium, ch.18



 St. Remy Remigius

 c. 438 - c. 533


    Henceforward burn what thou hast worshipped, and worship what thou hast
 burned. 1

 St. Remy Remigius
 Said to Clovis at his baptism [496]

 1 See Clovis


 Clovis

 466-511


    God of Clotilda, if you grant me victory I shall become a Christian.

 Clovis
 Legendary vow before battle



 Hsieh Ho

 fl. 500
 

    By copying, the ancient models should be perpetuated. 1  2

 Hsieh Ho
 Notes Concerning the Classification of Old Paintings,
 Sixth Principle

 1 See Horace
 2 See Fujiwara no Teika


 St. Benedict

 480-543
 

    We are therefore about to establish a school of the Lord's service in
 which we hope to introduce nothing harsh or burdensome.

 St. Benedict
 Rule of St. Benedict, prologue



 Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus

 480-524


    In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy
 kind of misfortune. 1  2  3  4

 Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus
 De Consolatione Philosophiae, bk.II, 4,4

 1 See Pindar
 2 See Dante
 3 See Chaucer
 4 See Tennyson




    Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with
 the condition of his estate?

 Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus
 De Consolatione Philosophiae, bk.II, 4,41





    Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every
 estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

 Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus
 De Consolatione Philosophiae, bk.II, 4,64





 From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend-
 Path, motive, guide, original and end.

 Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus
 De Consolatione Philosophiae, bk.III,9, 27





    Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.

 Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus
 De Consolatione Philosophiae, bk.III,12, 47



 Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus

 c. 490 - c. 583


    He receives hope in future benefits who recognizes a benefit that has
 already taken place.

 Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus
 Institutiones





    He is invited to great things who receives small things greatly.

 Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus
 Institutiones



 Pope Gregory I

 540-604


    They answered that they were called Angles.] It is well, for they have
 the faces of angels, and such should be the co-heirs of the angels in
 heaven.

 Pope Gregory I
 From Bede,
 Ecclesiastical History of the English People, II, 1



 Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

 c. 602-661
 

 He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
 And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

 Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
 A Hundred Sayings



 The Koran

    In the name of the most merciful God: Praise be to God, the Lord of all
 Being; the most merciful, the Master of the day of judgment. Thee do we
 worship, and of Thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right path, in
 the path of those to whom Thou hast been gracious; not of those against whom
 Thou art incensed, nor of those who go astray.

 The Koran






    Do not veil the truth with falsehood, nor conceal the truth knowingly.

 The Koran






    We believe in God, and in that which has been sent down on us and sent
 down on Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac and Jacob, and the Tribes, and that which
 was given to Moses and Jesus and the Prophets, of their Lord; we make no
 division between any of them, and to Him we surrender.

 The Koran






    A believing slave is better than an idolater, even though ye admire him.

 The Koran






    God will not take you to task for vain words in your oaths, but He will
 take you to task for what your hearts have amassed.

 The Koran






    I [Muhammad] have no power over benefit or hurt to myself except as God
 willeth . . . I am only a warner, and a bringer of good tidings to a people
 who believe.

 The Koran






    God sufficeth me: there is no God but He. In Him I put my trust.

 The Koran






    In the alternation of night and day, and what God has created in the
 heavens and the earth-surely there are signs for a god-fearing people.

 The Koran






    Surely God wrongs not men, but themselves men wrong.

 The Koran






    Not so much as the weight of an ant in earth or heaven escapes from the
 Lord, neither is aught smaller than that, or greater, but is clearly written
 in God's book.

 The Koran






    God changes not what is in a people, until they change what is in
 themselves.

 The Koran






    We [God] never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that
 he might make (the message) clear for them.

 The Koran






    Seest thou not how God hath coined a parable? A good word is like a good
 tree whose root is firmly fixed, and whose top is in the sky. And it
 produces its edible fruit every season, by the permission of its Lord. . . .
 And a corrupt word is like a corrupt tree which has been torn off the
 ground, and has no fixity. God makes those who believe stand firm in this
 life and the next by His firm Word.

 The Koran






    Our [God's] word to a thing when We will it, is but to say, "Be," and it
 is.

 The Koran






    Glory be to Him who carried His servant by night from the sacred temple
 of Mecca to the temple of Jerusalem that is more remote, whose precinct We
 have blessed, that We might show him of Our tokens.

 The Koran






    Thy Lord hath decreed that ye worship none save Him, and (that ye show)
 kindness to parents. . . . Lower unto them the wing of submission through
 mercy, and say, "My Lord, have mercy on them both as they took care of me
 when I was little."

 The Koran






    Walk not on the earth exultantly, for thou canst not cleave the earth,
 neither shalt thou reach to the mountains in height.

 The Koran






    They will question thee concerning the soul. Say: "The soul is the
 concern of my Lord, and you have been given of knowledge but a little."

 The Koran






    They say: "We will not believe thee till thou makest a spring to gush
 forth from the earth for us, or . . . bringest God and the angels as a
 surety" . . . And naught prevented men from believing when the guidance came
 to them, but that they said, "Has God sent forth a mortal as messenger?"
 Say: "Had there been in the earth angels walking at peace, We would have
 sent down upon them out of heaven an angel as messenger."

 The Koran






    And do not say, regarding anything, "I am going to do that tomorrow," but
 only, "if God will."

 The Koran






    Wealth and children are the adornment of this present life: but good
 works, which are lasting, are better in the sight of thy Lord as to
 recompense, and better as to hope.

 The Koran






    Man says: "How is it possible, when I am dead, that I shall then be
 brought forth alive?" Does he not remember that We have created him once,
 and that he was nothing then?

 The Koran






    Do not the unbelievers see that the skies and the earth were both a solid
 mass, and that We clave them asunder, and that by means of water We give
 life to everything? Will they not then believe?

 The Koran






    O men, if you are in doubt as to the Resurrection, surely We created you
 of dust, then of a sperm drop, then of a blood clot, then of a lump of flesh
 . . . And thou beholdest the earth blackened; then, when We send down water
 upon it, it quivers, and swells, and puts forth herbs of every joyous kind.

 The Koran






    We [God] charge not any soul save to its ability.

 The Koran






    God is the light of the heavens and of the earth. His light is like a
 niche in which is a lamp-the lamp encased in glass-the glass, as it were, a
 glistening star. From a blessed tree it is lighted, the olive neither from
 the East nor of the West, whose oil would well nigh shine out, even though
 fire touched it not. It is light upon light. God guideth whom He will to His
 light, and God setteth forth parables to men.

 The Koran






    As for the unbelievers, their works are as a mirage in a spacious plain
 which the man athirst supposes to be water, till, when he comes to it, he
 finds it is nothing; there indeed he finds God, and He pays him his account
 in full; and God is swift at the reckoning.
 Or they are as shadows upon a sea obscure, covered by a billow above which
 is a billow, above which are clouds, shadows piled upon one another; when he
 puts forth his hand, wellnigh he cannot see it. And to whomsoever God
 assigns no light, no light has he.

 The Koran






    Thou seest the mountains and thou deemest them affixed, (verily) they are
 as fleeting as the clouds.

 The Koran






    Thou truly canst not guide whom thou lovest; but God guideth whom He
 will; and He best knoweth those who yield to guidance.

 The Koran






    The present life is naught but a diversion and a sport; surely the Last
 Abode is Life, did they but know.

 The Koran






    Whosoever surrenders his face to God and performs good deeds, he verily
 has grapsed the surest handle, and unto God is the sequel of all things.

 The Koran






    If whatever trees are in the earth were pens, and He should after that
 swell the seas into seven seas of ink, the Words of God would not be
 exhausted.

 The Koran






    We offered this trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but
 they were humbled by it, and shrank from bearing it. Yet, man bore it. Truly
 he is ever in the darkness of injustice, and of ignorance.

 The Koran






    He makes the night seep into the day, and makes the day seep into the
 night; He has subordinated the sun and the moon, making each of them journey
 towards a preordained time.

 The Koran






    And on that day no soul shall be wronged at all, nor shall ye be rewarded
 for aught but that which ye have done.

 The Koran






    They say: "We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and
 nothing destroys us but time." Yet, not true knowledge have they of this;
 only belief.

 The Koran






    O true believers, let not men laugh other men to scorn, who peradventure
 may be better than themselves. . . . Neither let the one of you speak ill of
 another in his absence.

 The Koran






    The Arabs of the desert say, We believe. Answer, Ye do by no means
 believe; but say, We have embraced Islam: for the faith hath not yet entered
 into your hearts.

 The Koran






    We [God] created Man, and We know what his soul whispereth within him;
 and We are nearer unto him than his jugular vein.

 The Koran






    The heart of Muhammad did not falsely represent that which he saw. Will
 you therefore dispute with him concerning that which he saw?

 The Koran






    O tribe of spirits and of men, if you are able to slip through the
 parameters of the skies and the earth, then do so. You shall not pass
 through them save with My [the Lord's] authority.

 The Koran






    He is the first and the last, the manifest and the hidden: and He knoweth
 all things.

 The Koran






    Let every soul look upon the morrow for the deed it has performed.

 The Koran






    Is he, therefore, who goeth groveling upon his face, better directed than
 he who walketh upright in a straight way?

 The Koran






    Man is a witness unto his deeds.

 The Koran






 Recite: In the name of thy Lord who created,
 Created Man of a blood clot.
 Recite: And thy Lord is the most
 Generous, who taught by the Pen,
 Taught Man that he knew not.

 The Koran






    Whoso has done an atom's weight of good shall see it; and whoso has done
 an atom's weight of evil shall see it.

 The Koran






    Say: "He is God, One God, the Everlasting Refuge, who has not begotten,
 and has not been begotten, and equal to Him is not anyone."

 The Koran




 Anonymous

    Whatever kind of word thou speakest the like shalt thou hear.

 Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early
 The Greek Anthology,
 bk.IX, 382





    Envy slays itself by its own arrows.

 Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early
 The Greek Anthology,
 bk.X, 111





    Give a sop to Cerberus.

 Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early
 Greek and Roman saying





    Give me today, and take tomorrow.

 Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early
 Quoted, and condemned, by St. Chrysostom





    One picture is worth more than a thousand words. 1

 Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early
 Chinese proverb

 1 See Turgenev




    Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

 Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early
 Chinese proverb





    On the day of victory no one is tired.

 Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early
 Arab proverb





    Death is afraid of him because he has the heart of a lion.

 Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early
 Arab proverb





    I came to the place of my birth, and cried, "The friends of my youth,
 where are they?" And echo answered, "Where are they?"

 Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early
 Arab saying





    If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a hyacinth.

 Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early
 Persian saying





 If only, when one heard
 That Old Age was coming
 One could bolt the door,
 Answer "Not at home"
 And refuse to meet him!

 Anonymous, Miscellaneous Early
 Kokinshu (Collection of Ancient and Modern Poems) [905]



 Anonymous

    Ab urbe condita [Since the founding of the city (Rome)].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    Absit omen [May it not be an omen].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    Acta est fabula [The play is over].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Said at ancient dramatic performances and quoted by Augustus
 on his deathbed





    Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea [The act is not criminal unless
 the intent is criminal].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Legal maxim





    Ad astra per aspera [To the stars through hardships].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Proverb





 Adeste, fideles,
 Laeti triumphantes;
 Venite, venite in Bethlehem.[O come, all ye faithful,
 Joyful and triumphant,
 O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.]

 Anonymous, Latin
 Hymn, eighteenth century





    Anno aetatis suae . . . [In the year of his age . . . ].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Phrase





    Bis dat qui cito dat [He gives twice who gives promptly]. 1  2

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying

 1 See Augustus Caesar
 2 See Publilius Syrus




    Cave ab homine unius libri [Beware the man of one book]. 1

 Anonymous, Latin
 Quoted by Isaac D'Israel
 in Curiosities of Literature [1791-1793]

 1 See Sydney Smith




    Cave canem [Beware of the dog].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Proverb





    Caveat emptor [Let the buyer beware].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Proverb





    Cras amet qui nunquam amavit quique amavit cras amet [Tomorrow let him
 love who has never loved and tomorrow let him who has loved love]. 1

 Anonymous, Latin
 Pervigilium Veneris [c. 350], refrain

 1 See Parnell




    Cucullus non facit monachum [The cowl does not make a monk].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Medieval proverb





    Cuius regio eius religio [He who controls the area controls the
 religion].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Proverb





    De gustibus non disputandum [There is no accounting for tastes].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Proverb





    De minimis non curat lex [The law is not concerned with trifles].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Legal maxim





    Deus vult [God wills it].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Motto of the Crusades [1095]





    Dis manibus sacrum [Sacred to the departed spirit(s)].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Tombstone inscription





    Divide et impera [Divide and rule].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Ancient political maxim cited by Machiavelli





    Errare humanum est [To err is human]. 1  2  3

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying

 1 See Plutarch
 2 See Shirley
 3 See Pope




    Et in Arcadia ego [I too am in Arcadia].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Inscription on a tomb in a painting [c. 1623] byGuercino
 [1591-1666]





    Ex ungue leonem [From his claw one can tell a lion].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    Fiat justitia ruat coelum [Let justice be done though heaven should
 fall].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Proverb, sometimes attributed toLucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus
 [d. 43 b.c.]





    Finis coronat opus [The end crowns the work]. 1  2  3  4

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying

 1 See Heywood
 2 See Shakespeare
 3 See Herrick
 4 See Quarles




    Flagrante delicto ["Red-handed"].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    Fluctuat nec mergitur [It tosses but doesn't sink].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





 Gaudeamus igitur,
 Iuvenes dum sumus.[Let us live then and be glad
 While young life is before us.]

 Anonymous, Latin
 Students' song [c. 1267]





    Habeas corpus [You are to produce the person].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Legal phrase





    Hannibal ad portas! [Hannibal is at the gates!]

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    In vino veritas [In wine is truth]. 1

 Anonymous, Latin
 Proverb quoted by Plato, Symposium 217

 1 See Alcaeus




    Ipse dixit [He himself said it]. 1

 Anonymous, Latin
 Phrase of "proof"

 1 See W. S. Gilbert




    Ius est ars boni et aequi [Legal justice is the art of the good and the
 fair].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    Mater artium necessitas [Necessity is the mother of invention]. 1

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying

 1 See Persius




    Mors ultima ratio [Death is the final accounting].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    Nemo me impune lacessit [No one provokes me with impunity].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Motto of the Crown of Scotland





    Nihil nimis [Nothing in excess].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    Non multa sed multum [Not many but much].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Proverb





    Orare est laborare, laborare est orare [To pray is to work, to work is to
 pray].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Ancient motto of the Benedictine order





    Parvis e glandibus quercus [Tall oaks from little acorns grow].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    Pereant qui nostra ante nos dixerunt [May they perish who have used our
 words before us].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    Piscem natare doces [You're teaching a fish to swim].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    Post hoc, ergo propter hoc [After this, therefore because of this].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Definition of fallacy in logic





    Primus inter pares [First among equals].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    Pro bono publico [For the public good].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    Quos [or Quem] deus vult perdere prius dementat [Those whom God wishes to
 destroy, he first makes mad.] 1

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying

 1 See Euripides




    Requiescat in pace [May he rest in peace; May she rest in peace].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    Res iudicata pro veritate habetur [A matter which has been legally
 decided is considered true].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Legal maxim





    Ruat coelum, fiat voluntas tua [Though heaven should fall, let thy will
 be done].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Proverb





    Salus populi suprema lex [The people's safety is the highest law].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Legal and political maxim





    Semper fidelis [Ever faithful].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    Sic semper tyrannis 1  [Thus always to tyrants].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying

 1 See John Wilkes Booth




    Sit tibi terra levis [May the earth rest lightly on you].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Tombstone inscription





    Summum ius summa iniuria [Extreme justice is extreme injustice].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Legal maxim cited by Cicero in De Officiis, I, 10, 33





    Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis [Times change, and we change
 with them too].

 Anonymous, Latin
 From Owen's Epigrammata [1615]





    Testis unus testis nullus [A single witness is no witness].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Legal maxim





    Ubi bene ibi patria [Where one is happy, there's one's homeland].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Saying





    Urbi et orbi [To the city and to the world].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Apostolic blessing





    Vade in pace [Go in peace].

 Anonymous, Latin
 End of confessional absolution





    Vae victis! [Woe to the conquered!]

 Anonymous, Latin
 From Livy, History, bk. V, sec. 48,
 as said by Brennus to the Romans





    Volenti non fit iniuria [To a person who consents no injustice is done].

 Anonymous, Latin
 Legal maxim



 Caedmon

 fl. 670


 Light was first
 Through the Lord's word
 Named day:
 Beauteous, bright creation!

 Caedmon
 Creation.The First Day





 The fiend with all his comrades
 Fell then from heaven above,
 Through as long as three nights and days,
 The angels from heaven into hell;
 And them all the Lord transformed to devils,
 Because they his deed and word
 Would not revere.

 Caedmon
 Creation.The Fall of the Rebel Angels



 Bede
 Venerable Bede
 c. 672 - c. 735


    It is better never to begin a good work than, having begun it, to stop.

 Bede
 Ecclesiastical History of the English People, bk. I, ch. 23



 St. John , of Damascus

 c. 700 - c. 760


    God is a sea of infinite substance.

 St. John , of Damascus
 De Fide Orthodoxa, bk. I, ch. 9



 Alcuin

 735-804


    The voice of the people is the voice of God [Vox populi vox Dei]. 1

 Alcuin
 Letter to Charlemagne [a.d. 800]

 1 See Pope




 Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay,
 O wayfarer, to read what I have writ,
 And know by my fate what thy fate shall be.
 What thou art now, wayfarer, world renowned,
 I was: what I am now, so shall thou be.
 The world's delight I followed with a heart
 Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.

 Alcuin
 His Own Epitaph





    Alcuin was my name: learning I loved.

 Alcuin
 His Own Epitaph



 Ono no Komachi

 Ninth century


 The flowers withered,
 Their color faded away,
 While meaninglessly
 I spent my days in the world
 And the long rains were falling.

 Ono no Komachi
 Kokinshu [905]





 This night of no moon
 There is no way to meet him.
 I rise in longing-
 My breast pounds, a leaping flame,
 My heart is consumed in fire.

 Ono no Komachi
 Kokinshu [905]



 Ching Hao

 fl. 925


    There are Six Essentials in painting. The first is called spirit; the
 second, rhythm; the third, thought; the fourth, scenery; the fifth, the
 brush; and the last is the ink.

 Ching Hao
 Notes on Brushwork





    Resemblance reproduces the formal aspect of objects, but neglects their
 spirit; truth shows the spirit and substance in like perfection.

 Ching Hao
 Notes on Brushwork



 Sei Shonagon

 b. 966


    If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some
 woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated,
 one is always irritated.

 Sei Shonagon
 Makura no Soshi [c. 1002]



 Shikibu Murasaki

 c. 978-1031


    The art of the novel] happens because the storyteller's own experience of
 men and things, whether for good or ill-not only what he has passed through
 himself, but even events which he has only witnessed or been told of-has
 moved him to an emotion so pas-sionate that he can no longer keep it shut up
 in his heart.

 Shikibu Murasaki
 The Tale of Genji [c. 1000]





    Anything whatsoever may become the subject of a novel, provided only that
 it happens in this mundane life and not in some fairyland beyond our human
 ken.

 Shikibu Murasaki
 The Tale of Genji [c. 1000]



 The Primary Chronicle
 1040-1118
 

    The Chuds, the Slavs and the Krivchians then said to the peoples of Rus:
 "Our whole land is great and rich, but there is no order in it. Come to rule
 and reign over us."

 The Primary Chronicle
 Annal for the years 860-862:
 Invitation of the Varangians to Novgorod





    Then we went to Greece, and the Greeks led us to the edifices where they
 worship their God, and we knew not whether we were in heaven or on earth.
 For on earth there is no such splendor or such beauty, and we are at a loss
 how to describe it. We only know that God dwells there among men, and their
 service is fairer than the ceremonies of other nations.

 The Primary Chronicle
 Annal for the year 987: Vladimir's Christianization of Russia





    It is the Russians' joy to drink; we cannot do without it.

 The Primary Chronicle
 Annal for the year 987: Vladimir's Christianization of Russia



 St. Anselm

 c. 1033-1109


    God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

 St. Anselm
 Proslogion, ch. 3



 Abu Muhammad al-Kasim al- Hariri
 Abu Muhammad al-Kasim al-Hariri
 1054-1122


 We praise Thee, O God,
 For whatever perspicuity of language Thou hast taught us
 And whatever eloquence Thou hast inspired us with.

 Abu Muhammad al-Kasim al- Hariri
 Makamat. Prayer



 Peter Abelard

 1079-1142


 O what their joy and their glory must be,
 Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see!

 Peter Abelard
 Hymnus Paraclitensis





    Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since
 it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

 Peter Abelard
 Letter 8, Abelard to Heloise
  1

 1 See Heloise


 St. Bernard

 1091-1153


    You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones
 will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. 1  2

 St. Bernard
 Epistle106

 1 See Shakespeare
 2 See Wordsworth




    I have liberated my soul.

 St. Bernard
 Epistle371





    Hell is full of good intentions or desires.

 St. Bernard
 Attributed. From St. Francis de Sales, Letter 74



 Song of Roland
 Eleventh century


    Friend Roland, sound your horn.

 Song of Roland
 La Chanson de Roland,l. 1070





    Roland is valorous and Oliver is wise.

 Song of Roland
 La Chanson de Roland,l. 1093



 Heloise

 c. 1101 - c. 1164


    Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the
 result of one's own merits.

 Heloise
 Letter 2, Heloise to Abelard



 The Archpoet

 Twelfth century


    Let me die in a tavern so that the wine may be near my dying mouth.

 The Archpoet
 Confessio



 Gratian
 Franciscus Gratianus
 Twelfth century


    Paintings are the Bible of the laity.

 Gratian
 Decretum, pt. III



 Poem of the Cid
 Twelfth century
 

    Were his lord but worthy, God, how fine a vassal.

 Poem of the Cid
 l. 20





    Thus parted the one from the others as the nail from the flesh.

 Poem of the Cid
 l. 375





    Who serves a good lord lives always in luxury.

 Poem of the Cid
 l. 850





    One would grow poor staying in one place always.

 Poem of the Cid
 l. 948



 Frederick I
 Barbarossa
 1122-1190


    An emperor is subject to no one but God and Justice.

 Frederick I
 From Julius Wilhelm Zincgref,
 Apophthegmata, bk. I [1626]



 Averroes

 1126-1198


    Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

 Averroes
 Destructio Destructionum



 Henry II

 1133-1189


    Who will free me from this turbulent priest?

 Henry II
 Attributed



 Maimonides
 Moses ben Maimon
 1135-1204


    Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellowman,
 either by a considerable gift, or a sum of money, or by teaching him a
 trade, or by putting him in the way of business, so that he may earn an
 honest livelihood, and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding
 out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and the summit of
 charity's golden ladder. 1  2  3

 Maimonides
 Charity's Eight Degrees

 1 See Spinoza
 2 See Johnson
 3 See Andrew Carnegie


 Walter Map
 Mapes
 c. 1140 - c. 1210


    I intend to die in a tavern; let the wine be placed near my dying mouth,
 so that when the choirs of angels come, they may say, "God be merciful to
 this drinker!"

 Walter Map
 De Nugis Curialium



 Alain de Lille
 Alanus de Insulis
 d. 1202


    Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

 Alain de Lille
 Parabolae



 Kamo no Chomei

 1153-1216


    The flow of the river is ceaseless and its water is never the same. 1
 The bubbles that float in the pools, now vanishing, now forming, are not of
 long duration: so in the world are man and his dwellings. . . . [People] die
 in the morning, they are born in the evening, like foam on the water.

 Kamo no Chomei
 Hojoki (An Account of My Hut) [1212]

 1 See Heraclitus




    He who complies with the ways of the world may be impoverished thereby;
 he who does not, appears deranged. Wherever one may live, whatever work one
 may do, is it possible even for a moment to find a haven for the body or
 peace for the mind?

 Kamo no Chomei
 Hojoki (An Account of My Hut) [1212]





    Only in a hut built for the moment can one live without fears.

 Kamo no Chomei
 Hojoki (An Account of My Hut) [1212]





    My body is like a drifting cloud-I ask for nothing, I want nothing.

 Kamo no Chomei
 Hojoki (An Account of My Hut) [1212]



 Fujiwara no Teika

 1162-1241


    In the expression of the emotions originality merits the first
 consideration. . . . The words used, however, should be old ones.

 Fujiwara no Teika
 Guide to the Composition of Poetry





    There are no teachers of Japanese poetry. But they who take the old poems
 as their teachers, steep their minds in the old style, and learn their words
 from the masters of former time-who of them will fail to write poetry? 1  2

 Fujiwara no Teika
 Guide to the Composition of Poetry

 1 See Horace
 2 See Hsieh Ho


 Hartmann von Aue
 Hartmann von Aue
 c. 1170 - c. 1215


 He who helps in the saving of others,
 Saves himself as well.

 Hartmann von Aue
 Poor Henry



 Walther von der Vogelweide

 c. 1170 - c. 1230


 Now the summer came to pass
 And flowers through the grass
 Joyously sprang,
 While all the tribes of birds sang.

 Walther von der Vogelweide
 Dream Song, st. 1
  1  2

 1 See Anonymous
 2 See Pound




 This was ever the world's distempered will:
 Fools have always mocked and spurned the wise.
 These shall be judged according to their lies.

 Walther von der Vogelweide
 Lament, st. 2





 The sun no longer shows
 His face; and treason sows
 His secret seeds that no man can detect;
 Fathers by their children are undone;
 The brother would the brother cheat;
 And the cowled monk is a deceit . . .
 Might is right, and justice there is none.

 Walther von der Vogelweide
 Millennium



 Herbort von Fritzlar

 fl. c. 1210


    The cart has no place where a fifth wheel could be used.

 Herbort von Fritzlar
 Saying




 Eike von Repkow
 Eike von Repkow
 fl. c. 1220


    He who comes first, eats first.

 Eike von Repkow
 Sachsenspiegel [1219-1233]



 St. Francis , of Assisi

 c. 1181-1226
 

 Praise to thee, my Lord, for all thy creatures,
 Above all Brother Sun
 Who brings us the day and lends us his light.

 St. Francis , of Assisi
 The Song of Brother Sun and of All His Creatures [1225]





 Love is he, radiant with great splendor,
 And speaks to us of Thee, O Most High.

 St. Francis , of Assisi
 The Song of Brother Sun and of All His Creatures [1225]





    Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
 Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation.
 Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where
 there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

 St. Francis , of Assisi
 The Counsels of the Holy Father St. Francis. Admonition 27





    Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me
 sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where
 there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is
 sadness, joy.
 O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to
 console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it
 is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and
 it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

 St. Francis , of Assisi
 Attributed





    I have sinned against my brother the ass.

 St. Francis , of Assisi
 Dying words



 Magna Carta
 1215


    No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in
 any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him, except by
 the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

 Magna Carta
 Clause 39





    To none will we sell, to none deny or delay, right or justice.

 Magna Carta
 Clause 40



 Tommaso di Celano

 c. 1185 - c. 1255


 Day of wrath! O day of mourning!
 See fulfilled the prophets' warning,
 Heaven and earth in ashes burning!

 Tommaso di Celano
 Dies Irae



 Roger Bacon

 c. 1214 - c. 1294


    If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and
 truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in
 mathematics. 1

 Roger Bacon
 Opus Majus, bk. I, ch. 4

 1 See Galileo


 Alfonso X
 Alfonso the Wise
 1221-1284


    Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints
 for the better ordering of the universe.

 Alfonso X
 Attributed



 Rutebeuf

 d. 1285


 What became of the friends I had
 With whom I was always so close
 And loved so dearly?

 Rutebeuf
 La Complainte Rutebeuf





 Friendship is dead:
 They were friends who go with the wind, 1
 And the wind was blowing at my door.

 Rutebeuf
 La Complainte Rutebeuf

 1 See Dowson


 St. Thomas Aquinas
 St. Thomas Aquinas
 c. 1225-1274


 Sing, my tongue, the Savior's glory,
 Of His Flesh the mystery sing;
 Of the Blood, all price exceeding,
 Shed by our immortal King.

 St. Thomas Aquinas
 Pange, Lingua
 (hymn for Vespers on the Feast of Corpus Christi),st. 1





 Down in adoration falling,
 Lo! the sacred Host we hail;
 Lo! o'er ancient forms departing,
 Newer rites of grace prevail;
 Faith for all defects supplying,
 Where the feeble senses fail.

 St. Thomas Aquinas
 Pange, Lingua
 (hymn for Vespers on the Feast of Corpus Christi),st. 5 (Tantum Ergo)





 Thus Angels' Bread is made
 The Bread of man today:
 The Living Bread from Heaven
 With figures doth away:
 O wondrous gift indeed!
 The poor and lowly may
 Upon their Lord and Master feed.

 St. Thomas Aquinas
 Sacris Solemniis Juncta Sint Gaudia
 (Matins hymn for Corpus Christi), st. 6 (Panis Angelicus)





 O saving Victim, opening wide
 The gate of of heaven to man below,
 Our foes press on from every side,
 Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.

 St. Thomas Aquinas
 Verbum Supernum Prodiens (hymn for Lauds on Corpus Christi),
 st. 5 (O Salutaris Hostia)





 Lord Jesu, blessed Pelican.

 St. Thomas Aquinas
 Adoro Te Devote (hymn appointed for the Thanksgiving after Mass),
 st. 6 (Pie Pellicane Jesu Domine)





    Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he
 ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought
 to do.

 St. Thomas Aquinas
 Two Precepts of Charity [1273]





    Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care
 of the community.

 St. Thomas Aquinas
 Summa Theologica [1273]





    Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

 St. Thomas Aquinas
 Summa Theologica [1273]





    Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

 St. Thomas Aquinas
 Opuscule 11, De Regno



 Meister Eckhart

 c. 1260 - c. 1327


    In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

 Meister Eckhart
 Directions for the Contemplative Life





    The more wise and powerful a master, the more directly is his work
 created, and the simpler it is.

 Meister Eckhart
 Of the Eternal Birth





    One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather
 what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our
 works.

 Meister Eckhart
 Work and Being



 Dante Alighieri
 Dante Alighieri
 1265-1321


    In that part of the book of my memory before which is little that can be
 read, there is a rubric, saying, "Incipit Vita Nova [The new life begins]."

 Dante Alighieri
 La Vita Nuova [1293]





 Love hath so long possessed me for his own
 And made his lordship so familiar.

 Dante Alighieri
 La Vita Nuova [1293]





 Love with delight discourses in my mind
 Upon my lady's admirable gifts . . .
 Beyond the range of human intellect.

 Dante Alighieri
 Il Convito.
 Trattato Terzo, l. 1





    In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark
 wood where the straight way was lost.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoI,l. 1





    And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the
 shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoI,l. 22





    Thou [Virgil] art my master and my author, thou art he from whom alone I
 took the style whose beauty has done me honor.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoI,l. 85





    All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoIII,l. 9





    Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoIII,l. 14





    There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the
 starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible
 language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with
 these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air
 forever dark, as sand eddies in a whirlwind.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoIII,l. 22





    This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived
 without disgrace and without praise.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoIII,l. 34





    Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoIII,l. 51





    These wretches, who never were alive.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoIII,l. 64





    Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. 1  2

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoIII,l. 87

 1 See Housman
 2 See Frost




    Without hope we live in desire.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoIV,l. 42





    I came into a place void of all light, which bellows like the sea in
 tempest, when it is combated by warring winds.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoV,l. 28





    As in the cold season their wings bear the starlings along in a broad,
 dense flock, so does that blast the wicked spirits. Hither, thither,
 downward, upward, it drives them.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoV,l. 40





    Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart, seized this man for
 the fair form that was taken from me, and the manner still hurts me. Love,
 which absolves no beloved one from loving, seized me so strongly with his
 charm that, as thou seest, it does not leave me yet.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoV,l. 100





    What sweet thoughts, what longing led them to the woeful pass.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoV,l. 113





 There is no greater sorrow
 Than to be mindful of the happy time
 In misery.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoV,l. 121





    Galeotto was the book and he that wrote it; that day we read in it no
 farther.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoV,l. 137





    I fell as a dead body falls.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoV,Last line





    Pride, Envy, and Avarice are the three sparks that have set these hearts
 on fire.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoVI,l. 74





    But when thou shalt be in the sweet world, I pray thee bring me to men's
 memory.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoVI,l. 88





    Ye that are of good understanding, note the doctrine that is hidden under
 the veil of the strange verses!

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoIX, l. 61





    Already I had fixed my look on his; and he rose upright with breast and
 countenance, as if he entertained great scorn of Hell.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoX, l. 34





    Necessity brings him [Dante] here, not pleasure.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoXII, l. 87





    If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious haven.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoXV,l. 55





    So my conscience chide me not, I am ready for Fortune as she wills.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoXV,l. 91





    He listens well who takes notes.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoXV,l. 99





    A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoXXIV, l. 77





    Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to
 follow virtue and knowledge.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoXXVI, l. 118





    If I thought my answer were to one who would ever return to the world,
 this flame should stay without another movement; but since none ever
 returned alive from this depth, if what I hear is true, I answer thee
 without fear of infamy.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoXXVII, l. 60





    And thence we came forth, to see again the stars.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Inferno,
 cantoXXXIV, l. 139





    To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her
 sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel. 1

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoI,l. 1

 1 See Pope




    He goes seeking liberty, which is so dear, as he knows who for it
 renounces life.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoI,l. 71





    O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a
 little fault!

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoIII,l. 8





    For to lose time is most displeasing to him who knows most.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoIII,l. 78





    The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to
 it.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoIII,l. 121





    Unless, before then, the prayer assist me which rises from a heart that
 lives in grace: what avails the other, which is not heard in heaven?

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoIV, l. 133





    "Why is thy mind so entangled," said the Master [Virgil], "that thou
 slackenest thy pace? What is it to thee what they whisper there? Come after
 me and let the people talk. Stand like a firm tower that never shakes its
 top for blast of wind."

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoV,l. 10





    Go right on and listen as thou goest.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoV,l. 45





    [Beatrice] who shall be a light between truth and intellect.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoVI, l. 45





    It was now the hour that turns back the longing of seafarers and melts
 their hearts, the day they have bidden dear friends farewell, and pierces
 the new traveler with love if he hears in the distance the bell that seems
 to mourn the dying day.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoVIII, l. 1





    Give us this day the daily manna, 1  without which, in this rough desert,
 he backward goes, who toils most to go on.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXI,l. 13

 1 See Matthew, 6:11




    Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way
 and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXI,l. 100





    O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so
 fall?

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXII, l. 95





    To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and
 that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge.
 Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is
 to be sought.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXVI, l. 79





    Everyone confusedly conceives of a good in which the mind may be at rest,
 and desires it; wherefore everyone strives to attain to it.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXVII, l. 127





    Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame
 appear outwardly.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXXII, l. 10





    Less than a drop of blood remains in me that does not tremble; I
 recognize the signals of the ancient flame.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXXX,l. 46





    But so much the more malign and wild does the ground become with bad seed
 and untilled, as it has the more of good earthly vigor.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXXX,l. 118





    Pure and disposed to mount unto the stars.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Purgatorio, cantoXXXIII, l. 145





    The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe,
 and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoI,l. 1





    A great flame follows a little spark.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoI,l. 34





    And in His will is our peace.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoIII, l. 85





    The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most
 conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the
 freedom of the will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all
 and they alone, were and are endowed.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoV, l. 19





    Thou shalt prove how salt is the taste of another's bread and how hard is
 the way up and down another man's stairs.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXVII, l. 58





    Overcoming me with the light of a smile, she [Beatrice] said to me: "Turn
 and listen, for not only in my eyes is Paradise." 1

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXVIII, l. 19

 1 See Chaucer




    Therefore the sight that is granted to your world penetrates within the
 Eternal Justice as the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees
 the bottom, in the open sea it does not, and yet the bottom is there but the
 depth conceals it.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXIX, l. 73





    The experience of this sweet life.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXX,l. 47





    Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content
 with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the
 imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXX,l. 73





    The night that hides things from us.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXXIII, l. 3





    With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the
 sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXXVII, l. 28





    The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.

 Dante Alighieri
 The Divine Comedy [c. 1310-1320].Paradiso, cantoXXXIII, l. 145



 Kenko Yoshida

 1283-1350


    One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in
 a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not
 refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

 Kenko Yoshida
 Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness) [c. 1340]





    To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold
 intimate converse with men of unseen generations-such is a pleasure beyond
 compare.

 Kenko Yoshida
 Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness) [c. 1340]





    A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him
 to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

 Kenko Yoshida
 Tsurezure-Gusa (Essays in Idleness) [c. 1340]



 Philip VI , Philip of Valois

 1293-1350


    He who loves me, let him follow me.

 Philip VI , Philip of Valois
 Attributed



 William , of Occam
 , Ockham
 c. 1300 - c. 1348


    Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.

 William , of Occam
 Quodlibeta Septem [c. 1320]



 Petrarch
 Francesco Petrarca
 1304-1374
 

    Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.

 Petrarch
 To Laura in Life, canzone 11





    A good death does honor to a whole life.

 Petrarch
 To Laura in Death, canzone16





    To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.

 Petrarch
 To Laura in Death, canzone137





    Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. 1

 Petrarch
 De Remedies, bk. II

 1 See Petronius


 Edward III

 1312-1377


    Honi soit qui mal y pense. [Evil to him who evil thinks].

 Edward III
 Motto of the Order of the Garter [1349]





    Let the boy win his spurs.

 Edward III
 Said of the Black Prince at the battle of Crecy [1345]



 John Barbour

 c. 1316-1395


 Freedom all solace to man gives;
 He lives at ease that freely lives.

 John Barbour
 The Bruce [c. 1375], l. 227



 John Wycliffe

 c. 1320-1384


    I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

 John Wycliffe
 To the Duke of Lancaster [1381]. From J. R. Green,
 A Short History of the English People [1874], ch. 5





    By hook or by crook.

 John Wycliffe
 Controversial Tracts [c. 1380]





    This Bible is for the government of the People, by the People, and for
 the People.

 John Wycliffe
 Attributed [1382]



 William , of Wykeham

 1324-1404


    Manners maketh man. 1

 William , of Wykeham
 Motto of his two foundations, Winchester College and
 New College, Oxford

 1 See Goethe


 William Langland

 c. 1330 - c. 1400


    In a summer season when soft was the sun. 1

 William Langland
 The Vision of Piers Plowman [1362-1390]

 1 See Chaucer




    Who will bell the cat?

 William Langland
 The Vision of Piers Plowman [1362-1390]



 Charles V
 Charles the Wise
 1337-1380


    I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my
 horse.

 Charles V
 Attributed



 Geoffrey Chaucer

 c. 1343-1400
 

 To rede, and drive the night away.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Book of the Duchess [1369], l. 49





 Soun ys noght but eyr ybroken,
 And every speche that ys spoken,
 Lowd or pryvee, foul or fair,
 In his substaunce ys but air.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The House of Fame [1374-1385], bk.II, l. 765





 Venus clerk, Ovide,
 That hath ysowen wonder wide
 The grete god of Loves name.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The House of Fame [1374-1385], bk.III, l. 1487





 Hard is the herte that loveth nought
 In May.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Romaunt of the Rose [c. 1380],l. 85





 The tyme, that may not sojourne,
 But goth, and may never retourne,
 As watir that doun renneth ay,
 But never drope retourne may.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Romaunt of the Rose [c. 1380],l. 381





 Nakid as a worm was she.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Romaunt of the Rose [c. 1380],l. 454





 As round as appil was his face.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Romaunt of the Rose [c. 1380],l. 819





 So that the more she yaf awey,
 The more, ywis, she hadde alwey.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Romaunt of the Rose [c. 1380],l. 1159





 A ful gret fool is he, ywis,
 That bothe riche and nygard is.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Romaunt of the Rose [c. 1380],l. 1171





 The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, 1  2  3
 Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conqueryinge.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Parliament of Fowls [1380-1386],l. 1

 1 See Hippocrates
 2 See Goethe
 3 See Longfellow




 For out of olde feldes, as men seyth,
 Cometh al this newe corn fro yer to yere;
 And out of olde bokes, in good feyth,
 Cometh al this newe science that men lere.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Parliament of Fowls [1380-1386],l. 22





 Nature, the vicaire of the almyghty lorde.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Parliament of Fowls [1380-1386],l. 379





 A fol can not be stille. 1

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Parliament of Fowls [1380-1386],l. 574

 1 See Proverbs 29:11




 Now welcome, somer, with thy sonne softe, 1
 That hast this wintres weders overshake.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Parliament of Fowls [1380-1386],l. 680

 1 See Langland




 But the Troian gestes, as they felle,
 In Omer, or in Dares, or in Dite,
 Whoso that kan may rede hem as they write.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.I,l. 145





 If no love is, O God, what fele I so?
 And if love is, what thing and which is he?
 If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.I,l. 400 (Canticus Troili)





 A fool may ek a wys-man ofte gide.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.I,l. 630





 Ek som tyme it is craft to seme fle
 Fro thyng whych in effect men hunte faste.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.I,l. 747





 Unknowe, unkist, and lost, that is unsought. 1  2  3  4  5  6

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.I,l. 809

 1 See Homer
 2 See Horace
 3 See Shakespeare
 4 See Milton
 5 See Scott
 6 See Byron




 O wynd, o wynd, the weder gynneth clere.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.II,l. 2





 Til crowes feet be growen under youre ye.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.II,l. 403





 Lord, this is an huge rayn!
 This were a weder for to slepen inne!

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.III,l. 656





 It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake. 1

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.III,l. 764

 1 See Dickens




 For I have seyn, of a ful misty morwe
 Folowen ful often a myrie someris day.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.III,l. 1060





 Right as an aspes leef she gan to quake.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.III,l. 1200





 For of fortunes sharpe adversitee
 The worste kynde of infortune is this,
 A man to han ben in prosperitee,
 And it remembren, whan it passed is. 1  2  3  4

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.III,l. 1625

 1 See Pindar
 2 See Boethius
 3 See Dante
 4 See Tennyson




 Oon ere it herde, at tothir out it wente.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.IV,l. 434





 But manly sette the world on six and sevene;
 And if thow deye a martyr, go to hevene!

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.IV,l. 622





 For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.IV,l. 1283





 They take it wisly, faire, and softe.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 347





 For he that naught n' assaieth, naught n' acheveth. 1  2

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 784

 1 See Heywood
 2 See Gilbert




 Paradis stood formed in her yen. 1

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 817

 1 See Dante




 Trewe as stiel.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 831





 This sodeyn Diomede.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 1024





 Ye, fare wel al the snow of ferne yere! 1

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 1176

 1 See Villon




 Ek gret effect men write in place lite;
 Th' entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 1629





 Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 1786





 O yonge, fresshe folkes, he or she,
 In which that love up groweth with youre age,
 Repeyreth hom fro worldly vanyte.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 1835





 O moral Gower, this book I directe
 To the.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Troilus and Criseyde [c. 1385], bk.V,l. 1856





 Whan that the month of May
 Is comen, and that I here the foules synge,
 And that the floures gynnen for to sprynge,
 Farewel my bok, and my devocioun!

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Legend of Good Women [c. 1386],l. 36





 That, of al the floures in the mede,
 Thanne love I most thise floures white and rede,
 Swiche as men callen daysyes in our toun.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Legend of Good Women [c. 1386],l. 41





 Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
 The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 1





 And smale foweles maken melodye,
 That slepen al the nyght with open ye,
 (So priketh hem nature in hir corages);
 Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 9





 He was a verray, parfit gentil knight.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 72





 He was as fressh as is the month of May.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 92





 He koude songes make, and wel endyte.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 95





 Curteis he was, lowely, and servysable,
 And carf beforn his fader at the table.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 99





 Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne,
 Entuned in hir nose ful semely;
 And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly,
 After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe
 For Frenssh of Parys was to hir unknowe.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 122





 She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous
 Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 144





 And theron heng a brooch of gold ful sheene,
 On which ther was first write a crowned A,
 And after Amor vincit omnia. 1  2

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 160

 1 See Sophocles
 2 See Virgil




 His palfrey was as broun as is a berye.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 207





 A Frere ther was, a wantowne and a merye.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 208





 He knew the tavernes wel in every toun.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 240





 Somwhat he lipsed, for his wantownesse,
 To make his Englissh sweete upon his tonge.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 264





 A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 285





 As leene was his hors as is a rake.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 287





 For hym was levere have at his beddes heed
 Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,
 Of Aristotle and his philosophie,
 Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie,
 But al be that he was a philosophre,
 Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 293





 And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche. 1

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 308

 1 See Pope




 Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,
 And yet he semed bisier than he was.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 321





 For he was Epicurus owene sone. 1

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 336

 1 See Horace




 It snewed in his hous of mete and drynke.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 345





 He was a good felawe.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 395





 His studie was but litel on the Bible.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 438





 For gold in phisik is a cordial,
 Therefore he lovede gold in special.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 443





 She was a worthy womman al hir lyve,
 Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 459





 This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf,
 That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 496





 If gold ruste, what shal iren do?

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 500





 But Cristes loore and his apostles twelve
 He taughte, but first he folwed it hymselve.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 527





 And yet he hadde a thombe of gold.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 563





 That hadde a fyr-reed cherubynnes face.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 624





 Wel loved he garleek, oynons, and eek lekes,
 And for to drynken strong wyn, reed as blood.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 634





 And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn,
 Than wolde he speke no word but Latyn.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 637





 Whoso shal telle a tale after a man,
 He moot reherce as ny as evere he kan
 Everich a word, if it be in his charge,
 Al speke he never so rudeliche and large,
 Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe,
 Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes new.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Prologue,l. 731





 For May wol have no slogardie anyght.
 The sesoun priketh every gentil herte,
 And maketh hym out of his slep to sterte. 1

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1042

 1 See Malory




 Ech man for hymself.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1182





 The bisy larke, messager of day.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1491





 May, with alle thy floures and thy grene,
 Welcome be thou, faire, fresshe May.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1510





 That "feeld hath eyen, and the wode hath eres."

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1522





 Now up, now doun, as boket in a welle.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1533





 For pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1761





 Cupido,
 Upon his shuldres wynges hadde he two;
 And blynd he was, as it is often seene;
 A bowe he bar and arwes brighte and kene.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1963





 The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 1999





 Up roos the sonne, and up roose Emelye.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 2273





 Myn be the travaille, and thyn be the glorie!

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 2406





 And was al his chiere, as in his herte.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 2683





 What is this world? what asketh men to have?
 Now with his love, now in his colde grave
 Allone, withouten any compaignye.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 2777





 This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,
 And we been pilgrymes, passing to and fro.
 Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Knight's Tale,l. 2847





 Jhesu Crist, and seiynte Benedight,
 Blesse this hous from every wikked wight.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Miller's Tale,l. 3483





 And broghte of myghty ale a large quart.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Miller's Tale,l. 3497





 "Tehee!" quod she, and clapte the wyndow to.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Miller's Tale,l. 3740





 Yet in our asshen olde is fyr yreke. 1

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Reeve's Prologue,l. 3882

 1 See Thomas Gray




 The gretteste clerkes been noght the wisest men.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Reeve's Tale,l. 4054





 Thurgh thikke and thurgh thenne.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Reeve's Tale,l. 4066





 So was hir joly whistle wel ywet.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Reeve's Tale,l. 4155





 She is mirour of alle curteisye.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Man of Law's Tale,l. 166





 For in the sterres, clerer than is glas,
 Is writen, God woot, whoso koude it rede,
 The deeth of every man.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Man of Law's Tale,l. 194





 Sathan, that evere us waiteth to bigile.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Man of Law's Tale,l. 582





 In his owene grece I made hym frye.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Prologue,l. 487





 What thyng we may nat lightly have,
 Thereafter wol we crie alday and crave.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Prologue,l. 517





 Greet prees at market maketh deere ware,
 And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Prologue,l. 522





 But yet I hadde alwey a coltes tooth.
 Gat-toothed I was, and that bicam me weel.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Prologue,l. 601





 A womman cast hir shame away,
 Whan she cast of hir smok. 1

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Prologue,l. 782

 1 See Herodotus




 As thikke as motes in the sonne-beem.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Tale,l. 868





 "My lige lady, generally," quod he,
 "Wommen desiren have sovereynetee
 As well over hir housbond as hir love."

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Tale,l. 1037





 Looke who that is moost vertuous alway,
 Pryvee and apert, and most entendeth ay
 To do the gentil dedes that he kan;
 Taak hym for the grettest gentil man.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Tale,l. 1113





 That he is gentil that dooth gentil dedis. 1

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Wife of Bath's Tale,l. 1170

 1 See Goldsmith




 For thogh we slepe or wake, or rome, or ryde,
 Ay fleeth the tyme, it nyl no man abyde. 1

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Clerk's Tale,l. 118

 1 See John Heywood




 Love is noght oold as whan that it is newe.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Clerk's Tale,l. 857





 This flour of wyfly pacience.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Clerk's Tale,l. 919





 O stormy peple! unsad and evere untrewe!

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Clerk's Tale,l. 995





 No wedded man so hardy be t'assaille
 His wyves pacience, in trust to fynde
 Grisildis, for in certein he shal faille!

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Clerk's Tale,l. 1180





 It is no childes pley
 To take a wyf withoute avysement.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Merchant's Tale,l. 1530





 Love is blynd.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Merchant's Tale,l. 1598





 My wit is thynne.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Merchant's Tale,l. 1682





 Ther nys no werkman, whatsoevere he be,
 That may bothe werke wel and hastily; 1  2
 This wol be doon at leyser parfitly.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Merchant's Tale,l. 1832

 1 See Publilius Syrus
 2 See John Heywood




 Therfore bihoveth hire a ful long spoon
 That shal ete with a feend.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Squire's Tale,l. 602





 Men loven of propre kynde newefangelnesse.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Squire's Tale,l. 610





 Fy on possessioun
 But if a man be vertuous withal.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Squire's Tale,l. 686





 Pacience is an heigh vertu, certeyn.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Franklin's Tale,l. 773





 Servant in love, and lord in marriage.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Franklin's Tale,l. 793





 It is agayns the proces of nature.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Franklin's Tale,l. 1345





 Trouthe is the hyeste thyng that men may kepe.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Franklin's Tale,l. 1479





 For dronkenesse is verray sepulture
 Of mannes wit and his discrecioun.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Pardoner's Tale, l. 558





 Mordre wol out, certeyn, it wol nat faille.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Prioress's Tale, l. 1776





 This may wel be rym dogerel.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas, l. 2115





 Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe! 1

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Monk's Tale,l. 3329

 1 See The Seven Sages




 He was of knyghthod and of fredom flour.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Monk's Tale,l. 3832





 For whan a man hath over-greet a wit,
 Ful oft hym happeth to mysusen it.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Canon Yeoman's Prologue, l. 648





 My sone, keep wel thy tonge, and keep thy freend.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Manciple's Tale,l. 319





 Thing that is seyd, is seyd; and forth it gooth. 1

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Manciple's Tale,l. 355

 1 See Horace




 For the proverbe seith that "manye smale maken a greet."

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 The Canterbury Tales [c. 1387].The Parson's Tale, l. 361





 Reule wel thyself, that other folk canst rede.
 And trouthe thee shal delivere, it is no drede.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Truth [c. 1390],l. 6





 The wrastling for this world axeth a fal.

 Geoffrey Chaucer
 Truth [c. 1390],l. 16



 John Huss

 c. 1370-1415


    O holy simplicity!

 John Huss
 Last words, at the stake



 Thomas a Kempis

 1380-1471


    Sic transit gloria mundi [So passes away the glory of this world].

 Thomas a Kempis
 Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.I, ch.3





    Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since
 you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

 Thomas a Kempis
 Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.I, ch.16





    Man proposes, but God disposes.

 Thomas a Kempis
 Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.I, ch.19





    What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the
 heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things
 created.

 Thomas a Kempis
 Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.I, ch.20





    No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

 Thomas a Kempis
 Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.I, ch.20





    And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

 Thomas a Kempis
 Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.I, ch.23





    First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to
 others.

 Thomas a Kempis
 Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.II, ch. 3





    Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient,
 faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly and never seeking her own; for
 wheresoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love. 1

 Thomas a Kempis
 Imitation of Christ [c. 1420], bk.III, ch. 5

 1 See I Corinthians 13:4 and 13:7


 Charles d' Orleans
 Charles d'Orleans
 1391-1465


    I am dying of thirst by the side of the fountain.

 Charles d' Orleans
 Ballades, 2





    The season has shed its mantle of wind and chill and rain.

 Charles d' Orleans
 Rondeaux,63





 All by myself, wrapped in my thoughts,
 And building castles in Spain and in France.

 Charles d' Orleans
 Rondeaux,109



 John Fortescue

 c. 1395 - c. 1476


    Much cry and no wool.

 John Fortescue
 De Laudibus Legum Angliae [1471], ch.10





    Comparisons are odious.

 John Fortescue
 De Laudibus Legum Angliae [1471], ch.19



 Sir Thomas Malory

 d. 1471


    The noble history of the Sangreal, and of the most renowned Christian
 king . . . King Arthur.

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].Preface by William Caxton
 [c. 1422-1491], the first English printer





    For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness,
 hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin. Do
 after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and
 renown.

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].Preface by William Caxton
 [c. 1422-1491], the first English printer





    Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king
 born of all England.

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].bk. I, ch.5





    And with that the king saw coming toward him the strangest beast that
 ever he saw or heard of; so the beast went to the well and drank, and the
 noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple
 hounds; but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's
 belly: and therewith the beast departed with a great noise . . . Pellinore,
 that time king, followed the questing beast.

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].bk. I, ch.19





    In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white
 samite, that held a fair sword in that hand.

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].bk. I, ch.25





    Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was marvel he stood on his
 feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain.

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].IV, ch. 9





    What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door? 1

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].VII, ch. 34

 1 See Shakespeare




    The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh
 thereof, dureth over long.

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].X, ch.56





    It is his day.

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].X, ch.70





    The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom,
 and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and
 flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a
 lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all
 lovers courage, that lusty month of May. 1

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XVIII, ch. 25

 1 See Chaucer




    All ye that be lovers call unto your remembrance the month of May, like
 as did Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she
 lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XVIII, ch. 25





    Such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XX, ch. 9





    I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XXI, ch.1





    Through this man [Launcelot] and me [Guenever] hath all this war been
 wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through
 our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XXI, ch.9





    For as well as I have loved thee, mine heart will not serve me to see
 thee, for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XXI, ch.9





    Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed.

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XXI, ch.11





    Thou Sir Launcelot, there thou liest, that thou were never matched of
 earthly knight's hand. And thou were the courteoust knight that ever bare
 shield. And thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrad
 horse. And thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman.
 And thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword. And thou were the
 goodliest person that ever came among press of knights. And thou were the
 meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou
 were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.

 Sir Thomas Malory
 Le Morte d'Arthur [1485].XXI, ch.13



 Henry VI

 1421-1471


 Kingdoms are but cares,
 State is devoid of stay;
 Riches are ready snares,
 And hasten to decay.

 Henry VI
 From Sir John Harington, Nugae Antiquae [1769]



 Gabriel Biel

 c. 1425-1495


    To be crushed in the winepress of passion.

 Gabriel Biel
 Expositio Canonis Missae, lectio52





    Always in these matters desiring rather to be taught than to teach.

 Gabriel Biel
 Expositio Canonis Missae, lectio53





    No one conquers who doesn't fight.

 Gabriel Biel
 Expositio Canonis Missae, lectio78





    You get what you pay for.

 Gabriel Biel
 Expositio Canonis Missae, lectio86



 Francois Villon

 1431 - c. 1465


 Ah God! Had I but studied
 In the days of my foolish youth.

 Francois Villon
 Le Grand Testament,26





 But where are the snows of yesteryear?

 Francois Villon
 Le Grand Testament,Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis





 In this faith I will to live and die.

 Francois Villon
 Le Grand Testament,Ballade de l'Homage a Notre Dame





 There's no good speech save in Paris.

 Francois Villon
 Le Grand Testament,Ballade des Femmes de Paris





 But pray God that he absolve us all!

 Francois Villon
 Codicile





 I know all except myself.

 Francois Villon
 Ballade des Menus Propres



 Aldus Manutius
 Aldus Manutius
 1450-1515


    Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

 Aldus Manutius
 Placard on the door of the Aldine Press, Venice,
 established about 1490



 Christopher Columbus

 1451-1506


    "Thanks be to God," says the Admiral; "the air is soft as in April in
 Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is."

 Christopher Columbus
 Journal of the First Voyage,October 8, 1492





    Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long
 voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope
 of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain,
 he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found
 them, with the help of Our Lord.

 Christopher Columbus
 Journal of the First Voyage,October 10, 1492





    At two hours after midnight appeared the land, at a distance of 2
 leagues. They handed all sails and set the treo, which is the mainsail
 without bonnets, and lay-to waiting for daylight Friday, when they arrived
 at an island of the Bahamas that was called in the Indians' tongue Guanahani
 [San Salvador].

 Christopher Columbus
 Journal of the First Voyage,October 12, 1492





    The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along
 the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and
 fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing
 very sweetly.

 Christopher Columbus
 Journal of the First Voyage,October 28, 1492





    The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their
 towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, [and] herbs to drink the
 smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.

 Christopher Columbus
 Journal of the First Voyage,November 6, 1492





    When there are such lands there should be profitable things without
 number.

 Christopher Columbus
 Journal of the First Voyage,November 27, 1492





    And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner
 does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was
 the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the
 enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is
 not a good Christian come to these parts.

 Christopher Columbus
 Journal of the First Voyage,November 27, 1492





    The Admiral ordered the lord to be given some things, and he and all his
 folk rested in great contentment, believing truly that they had come from
 the sky, and to see the Christians they held themselves very fortunate.

 Christopher Columbus
 Journal of the First Voyage,December 22, 1492





    "Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously
 been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal
 miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a
 time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the
 opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against
 me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be
 to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already
 has happened."

 Christopher Columbus
 Journal of the First Voyage,March 15, 1493





    It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear,
 they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would
 believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them
 for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and
 show as much love as if they were giving their hearts.

 Christopher Columbus
 Letter to the Sovereigns on the First Voyage,
 February 15-March 4, 1493





    And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all
 believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they
 believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky,
 and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome
 their fear.

 Christopher Columbus
 Letter to the Sovereigns on the First Voyage,
 February 15-March 4, 1493





    I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto
 unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river
 [Ozama], and by this sea which is fresh.

 Christopher Columbus
 Journal of the Third Voyage, May 30-August 31, 1498





    I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as
 the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written
 on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and
 other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the
 North Star from north to south.

 Christopher Columbus
 Letter to the Sovereigns on the Third Voyage, October 18, 1498





    Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be
 so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.

 Christopher Columbus
 Letter to the Sovereigns on the Third Voyage, October 18, 1498





    I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to
 conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion are very
 different from ours, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed
 settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of
 the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was
 reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries.

 Christopher Columbus
 Letter to Dona Juana de Torres, October 1500





    The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that
 night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look
 forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What
 man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when
 in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and
 myself, we were forbidden [access to] the land and the harbors which I, by
 God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain?

 Christopher Columbus
 Lettera Rarissima to the Sovereigns, July 7, 1503 (Fourth Voyage)





    I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that
 is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me
 and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore,
 without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.

 Christopher Columbus
 Lettera Rarissima to the Sovereigns, July 7, 1503 (Fourth Voyage)





    Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on
 this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of
 all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and
 sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it
 please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other
 pilgrimages.

 Christopher Columbus
 Lettera Rarissima to the Sovereigns, July 7, 1503 (Fourth Voyage)



 Leonardo da Vinci
 Leonardo da Vinci
 1452-1519


    Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for
 other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a
 coffer full of corruption.

 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Notebooks [1508-1518],
 vol.I, ch.1





    Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Notebooks [1508-1518],
 vol.I, ch.1





    As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy
 death.

 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Notebooks [1508-1518],
 vol.I, ch.1





    Life well spent is long.

 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Notebooks [1508-1518],
 vol.I, ch.1





    Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Notebooks [1508-1518],
 vol.I, ch.1





    Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather
 memory.

 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Notebooks [1508-1518],
 vol.I, ch.2





    Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold
 weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Notebooks [1508-1518],
 vol.I, ch.2





    Savage is he who saves himself.

 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Notebooks [1508-1518],
 vol.I, ch.2





    It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Notebooks [1508-1518],
 vol.I, ch.2





    Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature. 1

 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Notebooks [1508-1518],
 vol.I, ch.2

 1 See Shakespeare




    Human subtlety . . . will never devise an invention more beautiful, more
 simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is
 lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Notebooks [1508-1518],
 vol.I, ch.3





    Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means
 of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Notebooks [1508-1518],
 vol.I, ch.20





    O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you
 created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after
 gold.

 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Notebooks [1508-1518],
 vol.II, ch.25





    O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of
 thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and
 ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without
 ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they
 have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Notebooks [1508-1518],
 vol.II, ch.45





    The Medici created and destroyed me.

 Leonardo da Vinci
 The Notebooks [1508-1518],
 vol.II, ch.46



 Amerigo Vespucci

 1454-1512


    Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet .
 . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled
 and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in
 addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.

 Amerigo Vespucci
 Letter called Mundus Novus [1503] to
 Lorenzo Pier Francesco de'Medici



 Sebastian Brant

 1457-1521


    The world wants to be deceived.

 Sebastian Brant
 The Ship of Fools (Das Narrenschiff) [1494]



 John Skelton

 c. 1460-1529


 I say, thou mad March hare.

 John Skelton
 Replication Against Certain Young Scholars





 He ruleth all the roost.

 John Skelton
 Why Come Ye Not to Court,l. 198





 The wolf from the door.

 John Skelton
 Why Come Ye Not to Court,l. 1531





 Old proverb says,
 That bird is not honest
 That filleth his own nest.

 John Skelton
 Poems Against Garnesche





 Maid, widow, or wife.

 John Skelton
 Philip Sparrow



 William Dunbar

 c. 1465 - c. 1530


 London, thou art the flower of Cities all.

 William Dunbar
 London,refrain





 Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.

 William Dunbar
 London,st. 3





 I that in heill wes and gladnes
 Am trublit now with gret seiknes
 And feblit with infermite:
 Timor Mortis conturbat me.

 William Dunbar
 Lament for the Makers (Makaris)
 [c. 1508],refrain





 Our plesance here is all vain glory,
 This false world is but transitory.

 William Dunbar
 Lament for the Makers (Makaris)
 [c. 1508],st. 2



 Desiderius Erasmus

 1465-1536


    It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off louring Old
 Age.

 Desiderius Erasmus
 The Praise of Folly [1509]





    They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do
 not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

 Desiderius Erasmus
 The Praise of Folly [1509]





    A peck of troubles.

 Desiderius Erasmus
 Apothegms [1542]



 Fernando de Rojas

 c. 1465 - c. 1538


    Goods which are not shared are not goods.

 Fernando de Rojas
 La Celestina, actI





    The use of riches is better than their possession.

 Fernando de Rojas
 La Celestina, actII





    The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

 Fernando de Rojas
 La Celestina, actII





    Riches do not make one rich but busy.

 Fernando de Rojas
 La Celestina, actIV





    No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that
 he cannot die today.

 Fernando de Rojas
 La Celestina, actIV





    When God wounds from on high he will follow with the remedy.

 Fernando de Rojas
 La Celestina, actX





    When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.

 Fernando de Rojas
 La Celestina, actXV



 Niccolo Machiavelli

 1469-1527
 

    There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to
 conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the
 introduction of a new order of things.

 Niccolo Machiavelli
 The Prince [1532], ch.6





    From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather
 than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that
 we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist
 together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than
 loved. 1  2

 Niccolo Machiavelli
 The Prince [1532], ch.8

 1 See Ennius
 2 See Accius




    The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are
 good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is
 not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good
 laws.

 Niccolo Machiavelli
 The Prince [1532], ch.12





    A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any
 other thing for his study, but war and its organization and discipline, for
 that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.

 Niccolo Machiavelli
 The Prince [1532], ch.14





    Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be
 despised.

 Niccolo Machiavelli
 The Prince [1532], ch.14





    Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been
 seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from
 how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be
 done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.

 Niccolo Machiavelli
 The Prince [1532], ch.15





    The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided
 for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not
 by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and
 cannot be depended upon in time of adversity.

 Niccolo Machiavelli
 The Prince [1532], ch.17





    A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must
 imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from
 traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be
 a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

 Niccolo Machiavelli
 The Prince [1532], ch.17





    When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of
 men live content.

 Niccolo Machiavelli
 The Prince [1532], ch.19





    There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself;
 another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither
 comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most
 excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.

 Niccolo Machiavelli
 The Prince [1532], ch.22





    There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by
 letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth;
 but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

 Niccolo Machiavelli
 The Prince [1532], ch.23





    Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

 Niccolo Machiavelli
 The Prince [1532], ch.26





    God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and
 that share of glory which belongs to us.

 Niccolo Machiavelli
 The Prince [1532], ch.26





    Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with
 assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious
 nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

 Niccolo Machiavelli
 Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy, bk. I, ch.3





    The people resemble a wild beast, 1  2  3  4  5  which, naturally fierce
 and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a
 prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being
 accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to  conceal itself,
 easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.

 Niccolo Machiavelli
 Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy, bk. I, ch.16

 1 See Horace
 2 See Shakespeare
 3 See 
 4 See 
 5 See Pope


 Charles VIII

 1470-1498


    This is our gracious will.

 Charles VIII
 Royal Order of March 12, 1497



 Nicholas Copernicus

 1473-1543


    Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All
 this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of
 the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, "with both eyes
 open."

 Nicholas Copernicus
 De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium [1543]



 Ludovico Ariosto

 1474-1533


    Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

 Ludovico Ariosto
 Orlando Furioso [1532], canto X, st. 84



 Bartolome de Las Casas

 c. 1474-1566
 

    It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude,
 uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be, who cannot be
 persuaded and brought to a good order and way of life, and made domestic,
 mild and tractable, provided . . . the method that is proper and natural to
 men is used; that is, love and gentleness and kindness.

 Bartolome de Las Casas
 Apologetica Historia (Apologetic History) de las Indias
 [written c. 1530], ch. 48





    The main goal of divine Providence in [allowing] the discovery of these
 tribes and lands . . . is . . . the conversion and well-being of souls, and
 to this goal everything temporal must necessarily be subordinated and
 directed.

 Bartolome de Las Casas
 Historia de las Indias [written 1550-1563], prologue



 Michelangelo Buonarroti

 1475-1564


    The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.

 Michelangelo Buonarroti
 Sonnet





    If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of
 man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

 Michelangelo Buonarroti
 Sonnet





    The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my
 heart from low desires.

 Michelangelo Buonarroti
 Sonnet





    I live and love in God's peculiar light.

 Michelangelo Buonarroti
 Sonnet



 Sir Thomas More

 1478-1535
 

    They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a
 thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was
 made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than
 it is.

 Sir Thomas More
 Utopia [1516].Of Jewels and Wealth





    They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of
 people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

 Sir Thomas More
 Utopia [1516].Of Law and Magistrates





    Plato by a goodly similitude declareth, why wise men refrain to meddle in
 the commonwealth. For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and
 daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of
 the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot
 remedy the folly of the people.

 Sir Thomas More
 Utopia [1516].Concerning the Best State of a Commonwealth





    A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

 Sir Thomas More
 Works [c. 1530]





    This is a fair tale of a tub told of his election.

 Sir Thomas More
 Confutation of Tyndale's Answers [1532]





    For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso
 doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

 Sir Thomas More
 Richard III and His Miserable End [1543]





    See me safe up: for my coming down, I can shift for myself.

 Sir Thomas More
 On ascending the scaffold. From Froude,
 History of England [1856-1870]





    This hath not offended the king.

 Sir Thomas More
 As he drew his beard aside upon placing his head on the block.
 From Bacon, Apothegms, no. 22



 Robert Whittinton

 c. 1480 - c. 1530


    [Sir Thomas] More is a man of angel's wit and singular learning; I know
 not his fellow. For where is the man of that gentleness, lowliness and
 affability? And as time requireth, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes;
 and sometimes of as sad a gravity; a man for all seasons. 1

 Robert Whittinton
 Passage composed for schoolboys to put into Latin

 1 See Ben Jonson


 Martin Luther

 1483-1546


    If it were an art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be
 the most learned doctors on earth.

 Martin Luther
 To the Christian Nobility of the German States [1520]





    Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

 Martin Luther
 Speech at the Diet of Worms, [April 18, 1521]





    The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be
 different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they
 get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.

 Martin Luther
 Whether Soldiers Can Also Be in a State of Grace [1526]





 A mighty fortress is our God,
 A bulwark never failing.
 Our helper He amid the flood
 Of mortal ills prevailing.

 Martin Luther
 Ein' Feste Burg [1529]





    What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much
 good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

 Martin Luther
 The Great Catechism. Second Command [1529]





    Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the
 sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

 Martin Luther
 On Marriage [1530]





    Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the
 conscience is eternal and will never die.

 Martin Luther
 On Marriage [1530]





    Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes
 a-begging.

 Martin Luther
 Table Talk [1569],53





    For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel .
 . . Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.

 Martin Luther
 Table Talk [1569],67





    The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon
 earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since
 the time of the Apostles.

 Martin Luther
 Table Talk [1569],171





    There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or
 company than a good marriage.

 Martin Luther
 Table Talk [1569],292





    A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by
 thinking, reading, or speculating.

 Martin Luther
 Table Talk [1569],352





    Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of
 spiritual things, but-more frequently than not-struggles against the divine
 Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

 Martin Luther
 Table Talk [1569],353





    If I had heard that as many devils would set on me in Worms as there are
 tiles on the roofs, I should nonetheless have ridden there.

 Martin Luther
 Luthers Sammtliche Schriften [1745], XVI, 14





    It makes a difference whose ox is gored.

 Martin Luther
 Works [1854 ed.], vol. LXII



 HernaAn Cortes
 Hernando Cortez
 1485-1547


    It seems most credible that our Lord God has purposefully allowed these
 lands [Mexico] to be discovered . . . so that Your Majesties may be fruitful
 and deserving in His sight by causing these barbaric tribes to be
 enlightened and brought to the faith by Your hand.

 HernaAn Cortes
 First Dispatch [July 10, 1519]. To Queen Juana and her son
 Charles V from the Vera Cruz town council;
 probably dictated by Cortes





    [The Aztecs] said that by no means would they give themselves up, for as
 long as one of them was left he would die fighting, and that we would get
 nothing of theirs because they would burn everything or throw it into the
 water.

 HernaAn Cortes
 Third Dispatch [May 15, 1522]. To Charles V



 Hugh Latimer

 c. 1485-1555


    Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by
 God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. 1

 Hugh Latimer
 To Nicholas Ridley [1500-1555] as they were being burned alive
 at Oxford for heresy [October 16, 1555].
 From J. R. Green,
 A Short History of the English People [1874], ch. 7

 1 See II Esdras 14:25


 Pope Julius III

 1487-1555


    Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is
 ruled?

 Pope Julius III
 To a Portuguese monk who sympathized with the pope's burdens
 of office



 Jacques Cartier

 1491-1557


    I am rather inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.

 Jacques Cartier
 La Premiere Relation



 St. Ignatius , of Loyola
 St. Ignatius of Loyola
 1491-1556
 

 Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest:
 To give and not to count the cost;
 To fight and not to heed the wounds;
 To toil and not to seek for rest;
 To labor and not ask for any reward
 Save that of knowing that we do Thy will.

 St. Ignatius , of Loyola
 Prayer for Generosity [1548]



 Bernal Diaz del Castillo

 c. 1492 - c. 1581


    To me it appears that the names of those ought to be written in letters
 of gold, who died so cruel a death, for the service of God and His Majesty,
 to give light to those who were in darkness, 1  and to procure wealth which
 all men desire.

 Bernal Diaz del Castillo
 The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (Historia
 Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueve Espana) [1800], pt. II, ch. 10

 1 See Isaiah 9:2


 Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus
 Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
 c. 1493-1541


    Every experiment is like a weapon which must be used in its particular
 way-a spear to thrust, a club to strike. Experimenting requires a man who
 knows when to thrust and when to strike, each according to need and fashion.

 Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus
 Surgeon's Book (Chirurgische Bucher) [1605]



 Francis Francois I

 1494-1547


    All is lost save honor.

 Francis Francois I
 Letter to his mother after his defeat at Pavia [February 23, 1525]



 Francois Rabelais

 c. 1494-1553


    Break the bone and suck out the substantific marrow.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.I [1532],prologue





    To laugh is proper to man.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.I [1532],Rabelais to the Reader





    Appetite comes with eating . . . but the thirst goes away with drinking.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.I [1532],ch.5





    War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through
 with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass
 away. Coin is the sinews of war. 1  2  3  4

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.I [1532],ch.46

 1 See Bion
 2 See Cicero
 3 See Dryden
 4 See Churchill




    How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and
 command of myself?

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.I [1532],ch.52





    Do what thou wilt.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.I [1532],ch.57





    Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience
 is but the ruin of the soul.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.II [1534], ch.8





    Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of
 money.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.II [1534], ch.16





    So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.II [1534], ch.29





    A good crier of green sauce.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.II [1534], ch.31





    This flea which I have in mine ear.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.III [1545], ch. 31





    Oh thrice and four times happy those who plant cabbages! 1  2

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.IV [1548], ch.18

 1 See Montaigne
 2 See Voltaire




    Which was performed to a T.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.IV [1548], ch.41





    He that has patience may compass anything.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.IV [1548], ch.48





    We will take the good will for the deed.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.IV [1548], ch.49





    Speak the truth and shame the Devil.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.V [1552],author's prologue





    Plain as a nose in a man's face.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.V [1552],author's prologue





    Like hearts of oak. 1

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.V [1552],author's prologue

 1 See Garrick




    Go hang yourselves [critics] . . . you shall never want rope enough.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.V [1552],author's prologue





    Looking as like . . . as one pea does like another.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.V [1552],ch.2





    It is meat, drink, and cloth to us.

 Francois Rabelais
 Gargantua and Pantagruel,
 bk.V [1552],ch.7





    I am going to seek a grand perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is
 played.

 Francois Rabelais
 Alleged last words. From Motteux, Life of Rabelais



 John Heywood

 c. 1497 - c. 1580
 

 All a green willow, willow, willow,
 All a green willow is my garland.

 John Heywood
 The Green Willow





 The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
 As sages in all times assert;
 The happy man's without a shirt.

 John Heywood
 Be Merry Friends





 Let the world slide, let the world go;
 A fig for care, and a fig for woe!
 If I can't pay, why I can owe,
 And death makes equal the high and low.

 John Heywood
 Be Merry Friends





    Haste maketh waste.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.2





    Good to be merry and wise.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.2





    Beaten with his own rod.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.2





    Look ere ye leap.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.2





    While between two stools my tail go to the ground.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.2





 He that will not when he may,
 When he would he shall have nay.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3





    The fat is in the fire.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3





    When the sun shineth, make hay.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3





    The tide tarrieth no man.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3





    Fast bind, fast find.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3





 And while I at length debate and beat the bush,
 There shall step in other men and catch the birds.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3





 Wedding is destiny,
 And hanging likewise.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3





    Happy man, happy dole.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.3





    God never send'th mouth but he sendeth meat.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.4





    A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.4





    Like will to like. 1  2  3

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.4

 1 See Ecclesiasticus 13:16
 2 See Homer
 3 See Robert Burton




    When the sky falleth we shall have larks.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.4





    More afraid than hurt.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.4





    Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.4





    Let the world wag, and take mine ease in mine inn.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.5





    Hold their noses to grindstone.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.5





    A sleeveless errand.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.7





    Reckoners without their host must reckon twice.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.8





    Cut my coat after my cloth.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.8





    The nearer to the church, the further from God.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.9





    Now for good luck, cast an old shoe after me.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.9





    Better is to bow than break.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.9





    It hurteth not the tongue to give fair words.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.9





    Two heads are better than one.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.9





    A short horse is soon curried.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10





    To tell tales out of school.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10





    To hold with the hare and run with the hound.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10





    Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10





    All is well that ends well.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10





    Of a good beginning cometh a good end.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10





    When the steed is stolen, shut the stable door.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10





    She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10





    Ill weed groweth fast.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10





 It is a dear collop
 That is cut out of th' own flesh.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10





    Beggars should be no choosers.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.10





    Merry as a cricket.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11





    To rob Peter and pay Paul.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11





 A man may well bring a horse to the water,
 But he cannot make him drink without he will.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11





    Kinde will creep where it may not go.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11





    The cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11





    Rome was not built in one day.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11





    Ye have many strings to your bow.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11





    Children learn to creep ere they can learn to go.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11





    Better is half a loaf than no bread.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11





    Nought venture nought have. 1  2

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11

 1 See Chaucer
 2 See W. S. Gilbert




    Children and fools cannot lie.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11





    All is fish that cometh to net.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11





    Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11





    One good turn asketh another.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11





    A dog hath a day.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11





    A hair of the dog that bit us.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11





 But in deed,
 A friend is never known till a man have need. 1  2  3  4

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.I, ch.11

 1 See Aristotle
 2 See Cicero
 3 See Publilius Syrus
 4 See Ovid




    Burnt child fire dreadeth.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.2





    There is no fool to the old fool.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.2





    All is not gospel that thou dost speak.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.2





    A fool's bolt is soon shot.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.3





    A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.4





    A penny for your thought.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.4





    You cannot see the wood for the trees.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.4





    You stand in your own light.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.4





    Tit for tat.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.4





    Three may keep counsel, if two be away.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5





    Small pitchers have wide ears.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5





    Many hands make light work.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5





    Out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5





    There is no fire without some smoke.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5





    A cat may look on a king.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5





    Have ye him on the hip. 1

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5

 1 See Shakespeare




 Much water goeth by the mill
 That the miller knoweth not of.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.5





    He must needs go whom the devil doth drive.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.7





    Set the cart before the horse.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.7





    The more the merrier.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.7





 It is better to be
 An old man's darling than a young man's warling.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.7





 Be the day never so long,
 Evermore at last they ring to even-song.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.7





    The moon is made of a green cheese.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.7





    I know on which side my bread is buttered.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.7





    The wrong sow by th' ear.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.9





    An ill wind that bloweth no man to good.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.9





    For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.9





    Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.9





    Every man for himself and God for us all.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.9





    Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.9





    This hitteth the nail on the head.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.11





    Enough is as good as a feast.

 John Heywood
 Proverbs [1546], pt.II, ch.11



 Charles V

 1500-1558


    Fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed,
 she is the farther off.

 Charles V
 From Francis Bacon,
 The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk. II





    Iron hand in a velvet glove.

 Charles V
 Attributed. From Thomas Carlyle,
 Latter-Day Pamphlets, 11





    I make war on the living, not on the dead.

 Charles V
 Said when advised to hang Luther's corpse on the gallows [1546]



 Pope Gregory XIII

 1502-1585


    To the greater glory of God.

 Pope Gregory XIII
 From The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent [1542-1560]



 Sir Thomas Wyatt

 c. 1503-1542


 Forget not yet the tried intent
 Of such a truth as I have meant;
 My great travail so gladly spent,
 Forget not yet!

 Sir Thomas Wyatt
 Forget Not Yet





 And wilt thou leave me thus?
 Say nay, say nay, for shame!

 Sir Thomas Wyatt
 The Appeal





 My lute, awake! perform the last
 Labor that thou and I shall waste,
 And end that I have now begun;
 For when this song is sung and past,
 My lute, be still, for I have done.

 Sir Thomas Wyatt
 The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of His Love





 They flee from me, that sometime did me seek
 With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.

 Sir Thomas Wyatt
 The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed



 John Knox

 1505-1572


    The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment [Regimen]
 of Women.

 John Knox
 Title of pamphlet [1558]





    A man with God is always in the majority.

 John Knox
 Inscription on Reformation Monument, Geneva, Switzerland



 John Bradford

 1510-1555


    The familiar story, that, on seeing evildoers taken to the place of
 execution, he was wont to exclaim: "But for the grace of God there goes John
 Bradford," is a universal tradition, which has overcome the lapse of time.

 John Bradford
 Biographical notice, Parker Society edition,
 The Writings of John Bradford [1853]



 Sir Thomas Vaux

 1510-1556


 Companion none is like
 Unto the mind alone;
 For many have been harmed by speech,
 Through thinking, few or none.

 Sir Thomas Vaux
 Of a Contented Mind [1557]





 I loathe that I did love,
 In youth that I thought sweet,
 As time requires for my behove,
 Methinks they are not meet.

 Sir Thomas Vaux
 The Aged Lover Renounceth Love, st.1





 But age, with his stealing steps,
 Hath clawed me in his clutch.

 Sir Thomas Vaux
 The Aged Lover Renounceth Love, st.3



 Richard Grafton

 d. 1572


 Thirty days hath November,
 April, June, and September,
 February hath twenty-eight alone,
 And all the rest have thirty-one.

 Richard Grafton
 Chronicles of England [1562]



 Mary Tudor
 Mary II
 Mary Tudor
 1516-1558


    When I am dead and opened, you shall find "Calais" lying in my heart. 1

 Mary Tudor
 From Holinshed, Chronicles [1577], III, 1160

 1 See Browning


 Ambroise Pare

 1517-1590


    I treated him, God cured him.

 Ambroise Pare
 His favorite saying



 Joachim du Bellay

 1522-1560


    Happy he who like Ulysses has made a glorious voyage.

 Joachim du Bellay
 Les Regrets [1559], XXXI



 Luiz Vaz de Camoes
 Camoens
 c. 1524-1580


    The Strait that shall forever bear his name.

 Luiz Vaz de Camoes
 The Lusiads [1572], in reference to Ferdinand Magellan's discovery of the
 strait [October 21, 1520]



 Pierre de Ronsard

 1524-1585


 When you are old, at evening candlelit,
 Beside the fire bending to your wool,
 Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ
 This praise for me when I was beautiful."

 Pierre de Ronsard
 Sonnets pour Helene, I, 43





 Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow;
 Gather the roses of life today.

 Pierre de Ronsard
 Sonnets pour Helene, I, 43





 Gather, gather your youth:
 Just like this flower, old age
 Your beauty will wither.

 Pierre de Ronsard
 Odes, I, 17. [Agrave] Cassandre



 Thomas Tusser

 c. 1524-1580


 At Christmas play and make good cheer,
 For Christmas comes but once a year.

 Thomas Tusser
 A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry [1557].The Farmer's Daily Diet





 Such mistress, such Nan,
 Such master, such man.

 Thomas Tusser
 A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry [1557].April's Abstract





 Sweet April showers
 Do spring May flowers.

 Thomas Tusser
 A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry [1557].April's Husbandry





 Who goeth a-borrowing
 Goeth a-sorrowing.

 Thomas Tusser
 A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry [1557].June's Abstract





 'Tis merry in hall
 Where beards wag all.

 Thomas Tusser
 A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry [1557].August's Abstract



 Pieter Bruegel

 c. 1525-1569


 Because the world is so faithless,
 I go my way in mourning.

 Pieter Bruegel
 Inscription in Moliere, The Misanthrope [1568]



 Gabriel Meurier

 1530-1601


    He who excuses himself accuses himself.

 Gabriel Meurier
 Tresor des Sentences



 William Stevenson

 c. 1530-1575


 I cannot eat but little meat,
 My stomach is not good;
 But sure I think that I can drink
 With him that wears a hood.

 William Stevenson
 Gammer Gurton's Needle [c. 1573], drinking song,act II





 Back and side go bare, go bare,
 Both foot and hand go cold;
 But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,
 Whether it be new or old.

 William Stevenson
 Gammer Gurton's Needle [c. 1573], drinking song,refrain



 Henri Estienne

 c. 1531-1598


    Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait [If youth but knew, if old age
 but could].

 Henri Estienne
 Les Premices [1594]





    God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

 Henri Estienne
 Les Premices [1594]



 Elizabeth I

 1533-1603


    The use of the sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the
 ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature
 nor public use and custom permit any possession thereof.

 Elizabeth I
 To the Spanish Ambassador [1580]





 My care is like my shadow in the sun-
 Follows me flying-flies when I pursue it.

 Elizabeth I
 On the departure of Alencon [1582]





    I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart
 and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too; and think foul scorn
 that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the
 borders of my realm.

 Elizabeth I
 Speech to the troops at Tilbury on the approach of the Armada [1588]





    I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do
 anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned
 out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in
 Christendom.

 Elizabeth I
 From Chamberlin, Sayings of Queen Elizabeth





    I will make you shorter by the head.

 Elizabeth I
 From Chamberlin, Sayings of Queen Elizabeth





    The daughter of debate, that eke discord doth sow.

 Elizabeth I
 From Chamberlin, Sayings of Queen Elizabeth





    [To the Countess of Nottingham] God may forgive you, but I never can.

 Elizabeth I
 From Hume,
 History of England Under the House of Tudor, vol. II, ch. 7





    Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown:
 that I have reigned with your loves.

 Elizabeth I
 The Golden Speech [1601]





    Semper eadem [Ever the same].

 Elizabeth I
 Motto





    I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be
 recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my
 virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and
 my preservation of peace.

 Elizabeth I
 To her ladies, discussing her epitaph





 'Twas God the word that spake it,
 He took the Bread and brake it;
 And what the word did make it,
 That I believe, and take it.

 Elizabeth I
 From S. Clarke, Marrow of Ecclesiastical History
 [ed. 1675], pt. II, Life of Queen Elizabeth



 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

 1533-1592
 

    I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without
 straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray. . . . I am myself
 the matter of my book.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.I [1580],To the Reader





    Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is
 hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.I [1580],ch.1





    The thing I fear most is fear.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.I [1580],ch.18





    I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.I [1580],ch.20





    He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.I [1580],ch.20





    Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will
 have to spend dead. 1

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.I [1580],ch.20

 1 See Lucretius




    Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not
 measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little;
 attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of
 years, for you to have lived enough.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.I [1580],ch.20





    I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.I [1580],ch.26





    Since I would rather make of him [the child] an able man than a learned
 man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide [tutor] with a
 well-made rather than a well-filled head.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.I [1580],ch.26





    If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was
 because he was he and I was I.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.I [1580],ch.28





    Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.I [1580],ch.32





    A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.I [1580],ch.39





    We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to
 establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.I [1580],ch.39





    The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.I [1580],ch.39





    It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a
 movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of
 its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings
 that agitate it.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.II [1580], ch.6





    My trade and my art is living.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.II [1580], ch.6





    The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue.
 It demands a rough and thorny road.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.II [1580], ch.11





    When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than
 she is to me?

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.II [1580], ch.12





    The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. . . . The
 same reason that makes us bicker with a neighbor creates a war between
 princes.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.II [1580], ch.12





    Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing . . . I do
 not understand it . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their
 sacramental word is [Egr   ][pi    ][epsi  ][chi   ][omega ], which is to
 say, I suspend my judgment.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.II [1580], ch.12





    This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I
 know?"

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.II [1580], ch.12





    Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by
 the dozen.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.II [1580], ch.12





    What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to
 the world that lives beyond?

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.II [1580], ch.12





    Those who have compared our life to a dream were right. . . . We sleeping
 wake, and waking sleep.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.II [1580], ch.12





    How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation! 1

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.II [1580], ch.16

 1 See Bentley




    A man may be humble through vainglory.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.II [1580], ch.17





    I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.II [1580], ch.20





    Saying is one thing and doing is another.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.II [1580], ch.31





    There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs
 or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.II [1580], ch.37





    I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can
 help it.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.1





    I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I
 dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.1





    Few men have been admired by their own households. 1

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.1

 1 See Antigonus




    Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.1





    It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in,
 and those within despair of getting out.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.5





    Everyone recognizes me in my book, and my book in me.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.5





    It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That
 extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our
 sight breaks and is dissipated by it, being filled and arrested by this
 strong light. 1  2

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.7

 1 See Shakespeare
 2 See Tennyson




    Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.8





    Not because Socrates said so, 1  but because it is in truth my own
 disposition-and perchance to some excess-I look upon all men as my
 compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the
 national than of the universal and common bond.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.9

 1 See Socrates




    There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts
 under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in
 his life. 1

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.9

 1 See Shakespeare




    A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid. 1
 2  3  4

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.9

 1 See Menander
 2 See Horace
 3 See Bacon
 4 See Linnaeus




    I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than
 myself.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.11





    I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought
 nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.12





    It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret
 the things, and there are more books about books than about any other
 subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.13





    For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time
 and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and
 limits.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.13





    No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own
 legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own
 bottom.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.13





    Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.

 Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 Essays,
 bk.III [1595], ch.13



 William I
 William the Silent
 1533-1584


    My God, have mercy on my soul and on my poor people.

 William I
 Last words as he fell under an assassin's bullets



 William Butler

 1535-1618
 

    It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an r in
 their name to eat an oyster.

 William Butler
 Dyet's Dry Dinner [1599]



 Sir Humphrey Gilbert

 c. 1539-1583


    We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!

 Sir Humphrey Gilbert
 From Hakluyt, Voyages, vol. III [1600], p. 159



 William Gilbert

 1540-1603


    Philosophy is for the few.

 William Gilbert
 De Magnete (On the Magnet) [1600]





    In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden
 causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated
 arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical
 speculators of the common sort.

 William Gilbert
 De Magnete (On the Magnet) [1600]



 St. John of the Cross
 San Juan de la Cruz
 1542-1591


    The Dark Night of the Soul.

 St. John of the Cross
 Title of treatise [c. 1583] based on his poem
 Songs of the Soul Which Rejoices at Having Reached . . . Union
 with God by the Road of Spiritual Negation [c. 1578]



 Mary Stuart
 Mary , Queen of Scots
 Mary Stuart
 1542-1587


    In my end is my beginning.

 Mary Stuart
 Motto





 O Lord my God, I have trusted in thee;
 O Jesu my dearest one, now set me free.
 In prison's oppression, in sorrow's obsession,
 I weary for thee.
 With sighing and crying bowed down as dying,
 I adore thee, I implore thee, set me free!

 Mary Stuart
 Prayer written in her Book of Devotion before her execution



 Jan Zamoyski

 1542-1605


    The king reigns, but does not govern.

 Jan Zamoyski
 Speech in the Polish Parliament [1605], referring to King Sigismund III



 Sir Edward Dyer

 c. 1543-1607


 My mind to me a kingdom is;
 Such present joys therein I find
 That it excels all other bliss
 That earth affords or grows by kind:
 Though much I want which most would have,
 Yet still my mind forbids to crave.

 Sir Edward Dyer
 Rawlinson Poetry MS 85,
 p. 17





 Some have too much, yet still do crave;
 I little have, and seek no more.

 Sir Edward Dyer
 Rawlinson Poetry MS 85,
 p. 17





 Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;
 I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.

 Sir Edward Dyer
 Fain Would I (attributed)



 Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas

 1544-1590


 Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies. 1

 Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas
 Divine Weeks and Works [1578],First Week,Second Day

 1 See Milton




 For where's the state beneath the firmament
 That doth excel the bees for government?

 Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas
 Divine Weeks and Works [1578],First Week,Fifth Day, pt. 1





 These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul.

 Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas
 Divine Weeks and Works [1578],First Week,Sixth Day





 Or almost like a spider, who, confined
 In her web's center, shakt with every wind,
 Moves in an instant if the buzzing fly
 Stir but a string of her lawn canapie.

 Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas
 Divine Weeks and Works [1578],First Week,Sixth Day





 Living from hand to mouth.

 Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas
 Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,First Day, pt. 4





 In the jaws of death.

 Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas
 Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,First Day, pt. 4





 Only that he may conform
 To tyrant custom.

 Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas
 Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,Third Day, pt. 2





 Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.

 Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas
 Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,Fourth Day, bk. 2





 Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours
 Should not be numbered by years, days, and hours.

 Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas
 Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,Fourth Day, bk. 2





 My lovely living boy,
 My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.

 Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas
 Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,Fourth Day, bk. 2





 Out of the book of Nature's learned breast.

 Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas
 Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,Fourth Day, bk. 2





 Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.

 Guillaume de Salluste , Seigneur Du Bartas
 Divine Weeks and Works [1578],Second Week,Fourth Day, bk. 2



 Miguel de Cervantes

 1547-1616


    You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his
 throne.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]author's preface,p. xix





    I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]author's preface,p. xx





    They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]author's preface,p. xxiii





    Time out of mind.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.I, ch.1, p. 4





    Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows. 1

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.I, ch.4,p. 22

 1 See Genesis 3:19




    By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.I, ch.4,p. 25





    Put you in this pickle.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.I, ch.5, p. 30





    Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.I, ch.6, p. 37





    The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.I, ch.8, p. 50





    I don't know that ever I saw one in my born days.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.II, ch.2, p. 57





    Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine. 1

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.II, ch.3,p. 63

 1 See Boileau




    The eyes those silent tongues of Love.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.II, ch.3,p. 65





    And had a face like a benediction.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.II, ch.4,p. 69





    There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and
 find fault.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.II, ch.4,p. 70





    Without a wink of sleep. 1  2

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.II, ch.4,p. 72

 1 See Shakespeare
 2 See Pope




    Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.1,p. 94





    Thank you for nothing.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.1,p. 94





    No limits but the sky.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.3,p. 110





    To give the devil his due.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.3,p. 111





    You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.4,p. 117





    Paid him in his own coin.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.4,p. 119





    The famous Don Quixote de la Mancha, otherwise called the Knight of the
 Sorrowful Countenance.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.5,p. 126





    You are come off now with a whole skin.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.5,p. 127





    Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in
 the skies.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.6,p. 131





    A finger in every pie.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.6,p. 133





    No better than she should be.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.6,p. 133





    That's the nature of women . . . not to love when we love them, and to
 love when we love them not. 1

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.6,p. 133

 1 See George Bernard Shaw




    You may go whistle for the rest.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.6,p. 134





    Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone. 1

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.6,p. 135

 1 See Shakespeare




    Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.6,p. 136





    Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.7,p. 140





    Give me but that, and let the world rub, there I'll stick.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.7,p. 148





    Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.8,p. 153





    Of good natural parts, and of a liberal education.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.8,p. 154





    Let every man mind his own business.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.8,p. 157





    Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.8,p. 159





    Raise a hue and cry.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.8,p. 159





    'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not
 venture all his eggs in one basket.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.9,p. 162





    The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.9,p. 163





    Within a stone's throw of it.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.9,p. 170





    The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.10,p. 174





    Absence, that common cure of love.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.10,p. 177





    From pro's and con's they fell to a warmer way of disputing.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.10,p. 181





    Little said is soon amended.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.10,p. 184





    Thou hast seen nothing yet.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.11,p. 190





    Between jest and earnest.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.11,p. 190





    My love and hers have always been purely Platonic.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.11,p. 192





    'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.11,p. 195





    My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name!

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.11,p. 195





    'Twill grieve me so to the heart that I shall cry my eyes out.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.11,p. 197





    Ready to split his sides with laughing.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.III, ch.13,p. 208





    My honor is dearer to me than my life.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.1,p. 226





    On the word of a gentleman, and a Christian.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.1,p. 236





    Think before thou speakest.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.3,p. 252





    Let us forget and forgive injuries.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.3,p. 254





    I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.3,p. 255





    More knave than fool.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.4, p. 261





    Here's the devil-and-all to pay.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.10,p. 319





    I begin to smell a rat.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.10,p. 319





    The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.10,p. 322





    Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.10,p. 325





    There's no striving against the stream; and the weakest still goes to the
 wall.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.20, p. 404





    The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without
 some lawful recreation. 1  2  3

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. I [1605], bk.IV, ch.21, p. 412

 1 See Ptahhotpe
 2 See Herodotus
 3 See Howell




    It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to
 write.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, author's preface,
 p. 441





    When the head aches, all the members partake of the pains.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.2, p. 455





    Youngsters read it [Don Quixote's story], grown men understand it, and
 old people applaud it.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.3,p. 464





    History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for
 where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least,
 inasmuch as concerns truth.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.3,p. 465





    Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.4, p. 468





    There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.5,p. 473





    He casts a sheep's eye at the wench.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.5,p. 474





    I ever loved to see everything upon the square.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.5,p. 475





    Neither will I make myself anybody's laughingstock.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.5,p. 475





    Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue
 of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger,
 and thirst.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.6,p. 479





    Presume to put in her oar.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.6,p. 480





    The fair sex.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.6,p. 480





    A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
 'Tis good to keep a nest egg. Every little makes a mickle. 1  2

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.7, p. 486

 1 See Hesiod
 2 See Chaucer




    Remember the old saying, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.10,p. 501





    Forewarned forearmed.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.10,p. 502





    As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.10,p. 502





    Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?
 The very pink of courtesy.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.13,p. 521





    I'll turn over a new leaf.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.13,p. 524





    He's [Don Quixote's] a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals. 1  2  3

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.18, p. 556

 1 See Bacon
 2 See Dryden
 3 See Heine




    Marriage is a noose.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.19, p. 564





    There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.20,p. 574





    He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I
 understand.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.20,p. 575





    Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as
 allowable in the one as in the other.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.21, p. 580





    A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.22,p. 582





    There is no love lost, sir.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.22,p. 582





    Come back sound, wind and limb.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.22,p. 587





    Patience, and shuffle the cards.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.23,p. 592





    Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.23,p. 594





    Tomorrow will be a new day.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.26, p. 618





    I can see with half an eye.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.29, p. 632





    Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.32, p. 662





    Honesty's the best policy.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.III, ch.33, p. 666





    An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.34, p. 674





    A blot in thy scutcheon to all futurity.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.35, p. 681





    They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.37,p. 691





    Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.37,p. 692





    Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.38,p. 724





    What a man has, so much he's sure of.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.38,p. 725





    The pot calls the kettle black.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.38,p. 727





    Mum's the word.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.44, p. 729





    I shall be as secret as the grave.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.62, p. 862





    Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers
 a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; 'tis meat for the hungry,
 drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. 'Tis the
 current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the
 balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man even.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.68, p. 898





    The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse
 to death.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.71, p. 917





    I thought it working for a dead horse, because I am paid beforehand.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.71, p. 917





    He . . . got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory
 one can wish for.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.72, p. 924





    Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.73, p. 926





    Ne'er look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.74,p. 933





    There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes
 of an estate, which wondrously alleviates the sorrow that men would
 otherwise feel for the death of friends.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.74,p. 934





 For if he like a madman lived,
 At least he like a wise one died.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 Don Quixote de la Mancha [1605-1615]Pt. II [1615], bk.IV, ch.74,p. 935 (Don
 Quixote's epitaph)





    Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

 Miguel de Cervantes
 The Little Gypsy (La Gitanilla)





    My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
 1

 Miguel de Cervantes
 The Little Gypsy (La Gitanilla)

 1 See Byron


 Giordano Bruno

 1548-1600


    Time takes all and gives all. 1

 Giordano Bruno
 The Candle Bearer [1582],
 dedication

 1 See Eliot




    I who am in the night will move into the day.

 Giordano Bruno
 The Candle Bearer [1582],
 dedication





    It is Unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall,
 happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.

 Giordano Bruno
 On the Infinite Universe and Worlds [1584],introductory epistle





    Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity
 of space.

 Giordano Bruno
 On the Infinite Universe and Worlds [1584],Fifth Dialogue





    There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

 Giordano Bruno
 On the Infinite Universe and Worlds [1584],Fifth Dialogue





    Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

 Giordano Bruno
 The Heroic Enthusiasts [1585], pt. I, Fifth Dialogue



 Charles IX

 1550-1574


    Horses and poets should be fed, not overfed.

 Charles IX
 Saying



 William Camden

 1551-1623


 My friend, judge not me,
 Thou seest I judge not thee.
 Betwixt the stirrup and the ground
 Mercy I asked, and mercy found.

 William Camden
 Remains Concerning Britain. Epitaph
 for a man killed by falling from his horse



 Theodore Agrippa d' Aubigne

 1552-1630


 Each of us aspires to goodness,
 Each of us desires the good
 And desires it for himself.

 Theodore Agrippa d' Aubigne
 Pieces Epigrammatiques, 49





    More exquisite than any other is the autumn rose.

 Theodore Agrippa d' Aubigne
 Les Tragiques. Les Feux



 Sir Edward Coke

 1552-1634


    Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else
 but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason.

 Sir Edward Coke
 First Institute [1628]





    The gladsome light of jurisprudence.

 Sir Edward Coke
 First Institute [1628]epilogue





    For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium.

 Sir Edward Coke
 Third Institute [1644]





    The house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for
 his defense against injury and violence as for his repose.

 Sir Edward Coke
 Semayne's Case. 5 Report 91





    They [corporations] cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor
 excommunicate, for they have no souls.

 Sir Edward Coke
 Case of Sutton's Hospital. 10 Report 32





    Magna Carta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.

 Sir Edward Coke
 Debate in the Commons [May 17, 1628]





 Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,
 Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

 Sir Edward Coke
 Translation quoted by Coke.
 From The Pandects (Digest of Justinian). De in Ius Vocando



 Sir Walter Ralegh

 c. 1552-1618


 Like to an hermit poor in place obscure,
 I mean to spend my days of endless doubt,
 To wail such woes as time cannot recure,
 Where none but Love shall ever find me out.

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 The Phoenix Nest [1593]. Sonnet





 As you came from the holy land
 Of Walsinghame,
 Met you not with my true Love
 By the way as you came?

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 As You Came from the Holy Land [c. 1599],st. 1





 But true love is a durable fire,
 In the mind ever burning,
 Never sick, never old, never dead,
 From itself never turning.

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 As You Came from the Holy Land [c. 1599],st. 11





 If all the world and love were young,
 And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
 These pretty pleasures might me move
 To live with thee, and be thy love. 1

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd
 (printed in England's Helicon) [1600], st. 1

 1 See Donne




 Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 Written on a windowpane





 Our passions are most like to floods and streams,
 The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen [c. 1599],st. 1





 Silence in love bewrays more woe
 Than words, though ne'er so witty;
 A beggar that is dumb, you know,
 Deserveth double pity.

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen [c. 1599],st. 5





 Go, Soul, the body's quest,
 Upon a thankless arrant:
 Fear not to touch the best,
 The truth shall be thy warrant:
 Go, since I needs must die,
 And give the world the lie.

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 The Lie (printed in Francis Davison,
 Poetical Rhapsody) [1608; manuscript copy traced to 1595], st. 1





 Give me my scallop shell of quiet,
 My staff of faith to walk upon,
 My scrip of joy, immortal diet,
 My bottle of salvation,
 My gown of glory, hope's true gage
 And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 Diaphantus [1604]. The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage





 Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 Verses to Edmund Spenser





 Shall I, like a hermit, dwell
 On a rock or in a cell?

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 Poem





 What is our life? a play of passion,
 Our mirth the music of division,
 Our mothers' wombs the tiring houses be
 Where we are dressed for this short comedy.

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 From Orlando Gibbons,
 The First Set of Madrigals and Motets [1612]. On the Life of Man





    [History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity
 hath triumphed over.

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 History of the World [1614],preface





    Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the
 heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 History of the World [1614],preface





    O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast
 persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath
 flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast
 drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and
 ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic
 jacet!

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 History of the World [1614],bk. V, pt. I, ch. 6, conclusion





 Even such is time, that takes in trust
 Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
 And pays us but with age and dust;
 Who in the dark and silent grave,
 When we have wandered all our ways,
 Shuts up the story of our days.
 And from which earth, and grave, and dust,
 The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.

 Sir Walter Ralegh
 A version of one of his earlier poems,
 found at his death in his Bible in the Gatehouse at Westminster



 Edmund Spenser

 1552-1599


 To kirk the nearer, from God more far,
 Has been an old-said saw.
 And he that strives to touch the stars,
 Oft stumbles at a straw. 1

 Edmund Spenser
 The Shepherd's Calendar [1579]. July, l. 97

 1 See Heywood




 Fierce wars and faithful loves shall moralize my song.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],introduction, st. 1





 A gentle knight was pricking on the plain.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.I, canto1,st. 1





 A bold bad man.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.I, canto1,st. 37





 Her angel's face
 As the great eye of heaven shined bright,
 And made a sunshine in the shady place.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.I, canto3, st. 4





 Ay me, how many perils do enfold
 The righteous man, to make him daily fall.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.I, canto8, st. 1





 Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,
 Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.I, canto9, st. 40





 All for love, and nothing for reward.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.II, canto8, st. 2





 Gather therefore the Rose, whilst yet is prime,
 For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower:
 Gather the Rose of love, whilst yet is time. 1  2  3  4

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.II, canto12, st. 75

 1 See The Wisdom of Solomon 2:8
 2 See Horace
 3 See Ronsard
 4 See Herrick




 Her birth was of the womb of morning dew.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.III, canto6,st. 3





 Roses red and violets blue,
 And all the sweetest flowers, that in the forest grew.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.III, canto6,st. 6





 All that in this delightful garden grows,
 Should happy be, and have immortal bliss.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.III, canto6,st. 41





 That Squire of Dames.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.III, canto8, st. 44





 And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.III, canto10, st. 60





 How over that same door was likewise writ,
 Be bold, be bold, and everywhere Be bold. 1  2  3

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.III, canto11, st. 54

 1 See Danton
 2 See Channing
 3 See Patton




 Another iron door, on which was writ,
 Be not too bold.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.III, canto11, st. 54





 Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled,
 On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.IV [1596], canto2, st. 32





 For all that nature by her mother wit
 Could frame in earth.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.IV [1596], canto10, st. 21





 Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.V, canto2, st. 43





 Who will not mercy unto others show,
 How can he mercy ever hope to have? 1  2

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.VI, canto1, st. 42

 1 See Matthew 5:7
 2 See Pope




 The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known.
 For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed,
 As by his manners.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.VI, canto3, st. 1





 That here on earth is no sure happiness.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.VI, canto11, st. 1





 The ever-whirling wheel
 Of Change; the which all mortal things doth sway.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.VII, canto6,st. 1





 Wars and alarums unto nations wide.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.VII, canto6,st. 3





 But times do change and move continually. 1

 Edmund Spenser
 The Faerie Queene [1590],bk.VII, canto6,st. 47

 1 See Anonymous Latin




 For deeds do die, however nobly done,
 And thoughts of men do as themselves decay,
 But wise words taught in numbers for to run,
 Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

 Edmund Spenser
 The Ruines of Time [1591], l. 400





 Full little knowest thou that hast not tried,
 What hell it is, in suing long to bide:
 To lose good days, that might be better spent;
 To waste long nights in pensive discontent;
 To speed today, to be put back tomorrow;
 To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow.

 Edmund Spenser
 Mother Hubberd's Tale [1591],l. 895





 To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares;
 To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs;
 To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run,
 To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.
 Unhappy wight, born to disastrous end,
 That doth his life in so long tendance spend.

 Edmund Spenser
 Mother Hubberd's Tale [1591],l. 903





 What more felicity can fall to creature,
 Than to enjoy delight with liberty.

 Edmund Spenser
 Muiopotmos; or, The Fate of the Butterfly [1591], l. 209





 I hate the day, because it lendeth light
 To see all things, and not my love to see.

 Edmund Spenser
 Daphnaida [1591], l. 407





 Death slew not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.

 Edmund Spenser
 An Epitaph upon Sir Philip Sidney [1591], l. 20





 Though last not least.

 Edmund Spenser
 Colin Clouts Come Home Again [1595], l. 144





 Tell her the joyous time will not be stayed
 Unlesse she do him by the forelock take.

 Edmund Spenser
 Amoretti [1595]. Sonnet 70





 The woods shall to me answer, and my Echo ring.

 Edmund Spenser
 Epithalamion [1595],l. 18





 Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
 And lend me leave to come unto my love?

 Edmund Spenser
 Epithalamion [1595],l. 278





 For of the soul the body form doth take:
 For soul is form, and doth the body make.

 Edmund Spenser
 Hymn in Honor of Beauty [1596],l. 132





 For all that fair is, is by nature good; 1
 That is a sign to know the gentle blood.

 Edmund Spenser
 Hymn in Honor of Beauty [1596],l. 139

 1 See Shakespeare




 Sweet Thames! run softly, till I end my Song.

 Edmund Spenser
 Prothalamion [1596], refrain





 I was promised on a time
 To have reason for my rhyme;
 From that time unto this season,
 I received nor rhyme nor reason.

 Edmund Spenser
 Lines on his promised pension. From Thomas Fuller,
 Worthies of England [1662]



 John Florio

 c. 1553-1625


    England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of
 horses. 1

 John Florio
 Second Frutes [1591]

 1 See Robert Burton




    Praise the sea; on shore remain.

 John Florio
 Second Frutes [1591]



 Henri IV , Henry of Navarre

 1553-1610


    I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a
 chicken in his pot every Sunday.

 Henri IV , Henry of Navarre
 Attributed





    Paris is well worth a Mass.

 Henri IV , Henry of Navarre
 Attributed





    Let my white panache be your rallying point.

 Henri IV , Henry of Navarre
 Attributed battle cry





    Hang yourself, brave Crillon; we fought at Arques and you were not there.

 Henri IV , Henry of Navarre
 Letter [1597]. From Lettres missives de Henri IV, Collection
 des Documents Inedits de l'Histoire de France, vol. IV [1847]





    The wisest fool in Christendom [James I of England].

 Henri IV , Henry of Navarre
 Attributed



 George Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal

 c. 1553-1623


    Thai half said. Quhat say thai? Let thame say.

 George Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal
 Family motto, Mitchell Tower, Marischal College, Aberdeen,
 Scotland [founded 1593]



 Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke

 1554-1628


 Oh wearisome condition of humanity!
 Born under one law, to another bound.

 Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
 Mustapha [1609], V, 4





    Fulke Greville, Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Councillor to King James, and
 Friend to Sir Philip Sidney.

 Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
 Epitaph, on his monument in Warwick



 Richard Hooker

 c. 1554-1600


    Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom
 of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth
 do her homage-the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not
 exempted from her power.

 Richard Hooker
 Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity [1594], bk. 1





    That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.

 Richard Hooker
 Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity [1594], bk. 1



 John Lyly

 c. 1554-1606


    Be valiant, but not too venturous. Let thy attire be comely, but not
 costly.

 John Lyly
 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 39





    The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

 John Lyly
 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 47





    Delays breed dangers.

 John Lyly
 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 65





    It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.

 John Lyly
 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 80





    Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

 John Lyly
 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 81





    Let me stand to the main chance. 1

 John Lyly
 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 104

 1 See Butler




    It is a world to see.

 John Lyly
 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 116





    A clear conscience is a sure card.

 John Lyly
 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1579]. Arber's reprint,p. 207





    Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.

 John Lyly
 Euphues and His England, [1580],p. 229





    A comely old man as busy as a bee.

 John Lyly
 Euphues and His England, [1580],p. 252





    Maidens, be they never so foolish, yet being fair they are commonly
 fortunate.

 John Lyly
 Euphues and His England, [1580],p. 279





    Your eyes are so sharp that you cannot only look through a millstone, but
 clean through the mind.

 John Lyly
 Euphues and His England, [1580],p. 289





    I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweet tooth in his head.

 John Lyly
 Euphues and His England, [1580],p. 308





    A rose is sweeter in the bud than full-blown.

 John Lyly
 Euphues and His England, [1580],p. 314





 Cupid and my Campaspe played
 At cards for kisses: Cupid paid.

 John Lyly
 Alexander and Campaspe [1584], actIII, sc. v





 How at heaven's gates she claps her wings,
 The morn not waking till she sings. 1

 John Lyly
 Alexander and Campaspe [1584], actV, sc. i

 1 See Shakespeare




 Night hath a thousand eyes.

 John Lyly
 Maides Metamorphosis, III, 1





    Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.

 John Lyly
 Mother Bombie [1590], act IV, sc. i



 Sir Philip Sidney

 1554-1586
 

    High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.

 Sir Philip Sidney
 The Arcadia [written 1580],bk.I





    They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

 Sir Philip Sidney
 The Arcadia [written 1580],bk.I





    My dear, my better half.

 Sir Philip Sidney
 The Arcadia [written 1580],bk.III





 My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
 By just exchange one for the other given:
 I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
 There never was a better bargain driven.

 Sir Philip Sidney
 The Arcadia [written 1580],Sonnet





 Ring out your bells! Let mourning shows be spread!
 For Love is dead.

 Sir Philip Sidney
 The Arcadia [written 1580],Song





 Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust,
 And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things;
 Grow rich in that which never taketh rust:
 Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings.

 Sir Philip Sidney
 The Arcadia [written 1580],Sonnet





    Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

 Sir Philip Sidney
 The Defense of Poesy [written c. 1580]





    He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old
 men from the chimney corner.

 Sir Philip Sidney
 The Defense of Poesy [written c. 1580]





    I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart
 moved more than with a trumpet.

 Sir Philip Sidney
 The Defense of Poesy [written c. 1580]





 "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write."

 Sir Philip Sidney
 Astrophel and Stella [1591]





 With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!
 How silently, and with how wan a face!

 Sir Philip Sidney
 Astrophel and Stella [1591]





 Have I caught my heav'nly jewel.

 Sir Philip Sidney
 Astrophel and Stella [1591]Second Song





    Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.

 Sir Philip Sidney
 Said on the battlefield of Zutphen [September 22, 1586]
 on giving his water bottle to a dying soldier



 Francois de Malherbe

 1555-1628


    And a rose, she lived as roses do, the space of a morn.

 Francois de Malherbe
 Consolation a Monsieur du Perier [1599]





    And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised.

 Francois de Malherbe
 Priere pour le roi Henri le Grand [1605]





    What Malherbe writes will endure forever.

 Francois de Malherbe
 Sonnet a Louis XIII [1624]




 Philip Nicolai

 1556-1608


 Wake, awake, for night is flying:
 The watchmen on the heights are crying.

 Philip Nicolai
 Hymn [1597]



 Thomas Kyd

 1558-1594


 What outcries call me from my naked bed?

 Thomas Kyd
 The Spanish Tragedy [1594],
 actII, sc. v, l. 1





 O eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears;
 O life, no life, but lively form of death;
 O world, no world, but mass of public wrongs,
 Confused and filled with murder and misdeeds.

 Thomas Kyd
 The Spanish Tragedy [1594],
 actIII, sc. ii, l. 1





 Hieronymo, beware: go by, go by.

 Thomas Kyd
 The Spanish Tragedy [1594],
 actIII, sc. xii, l. 31





 Why then I'll fit you, say no more.
 When I was young, I gave my mind
 And plied myself to fruitless poetry:
 Which though it profit the professor naught
 Yet it is passing pleasing to the world.

 Thomas Kyd
 The Spanish Tragedy [1594],
 actIV, sc. ii, l. 70



 Thomas Lodge

 c. 1558-1625


 Love in my bosom like a bee
 Doth suck his sweet.

 Thomas Lodge
 Rosalind [1590]





    Devils are not so black as they are painted.

 Thomas Lodge
 A Margarite of America [1596]



 George Peele

 c. 1558 - c. 1597


 Fair and fair, and twice so fair,
 As fair as any may be.

 George Peele
 The Arraignment of Paris [1584]





 My merry, merry, merry roundelay
 Concludes with Cupid's curse:
 They that do change old love for new,
 Pray gods, they change for worse!

 George Peele
 The Arraignment of Paris [1584]





 His golden locks time hath to silver turned;
 O time too swift, O swiftness never ceasing!
 His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned,
 But spurned in vain; youth waneth by increasing.

 George Peele
 Polyhymnia [1590]. The Aged Man-at-Arms, st.1





 His helmet now shall make a hive for bees,
 And lovers' sonnets turned to holy psalms,
 A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees,
 And feed on prayers, which are age his alms.

 George Peele
 Polyhymnia [1590]. The Aged Man-at-Arms, st.2



 Chidiock Tichborne

 c. 1558-1586
 

 My prime of youth is but a frost of cares;
 My feast of joy is but a dish of pain;
 My crop of corn is but a field of tares;

 And all my good is but vain hope of gain:
 The day is past, and yet I saw no sun;
 And now I live, and now my life is done.

 Chidiock Tichborne
 Tichborne's Elegy [1586]



 George Chapman

 c. 1559-1634


 Promise is most given when the least is said.

 George Chapman
 Hero and Leander [1598]





 Love calls to war;
 Sighs his alarms,
 Lips his swords are,
 The field his arms.

 George Chapman
 Hero and Leander [1598]Epithalamion Teratos, refrain





    Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

 George Chapman
 All Fools [1605], act V, sc. i





    Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy
 purses.

 George Chapman
 Eastward Ho [1605],
 actI, sc. i





    Why, do nothing, be like a gentleman, be idle . . . Make ducks and drakes
 with shillings.

 George Chapman
 Eastward Ho [1605],
 actI, sc. i





    Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the
 face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to
 Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are.
 And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there
 [Virginia]; for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find
 ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.

 George Chapman
 Eastward Ho [1605],
 actIII, sc. ii





    I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena,
 the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

 George Chapman
 Eastward Ho [1605],
 actV, sc. i





 For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
 One passion doth expel another still. 1

 George Chapman
 Monsieur d'Olive [1606], act V, sc. i

 1 See Shakespeare




 To put a girdle round about the world. 1

 George Chapman
 Bussy d'Ambois [1607], actI, sc. i

 1 See Shakespeare




 Speed his plow.

 George Chapman
 Bussy d'Ambois [1607], actI, sc. i





 So our lives
 In acts exemplary, not only win
 Ourselves good names, but doth to others give
 Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

 George Chapman
 Bussy d'Ambois [1607], actI, sc. i





 Who to himself is law no law doth need,
 Offends no law, and is a king indeed.

 George Chapman
 Bussy d'Ambois [1607], actII, sc. i





 Be free, all worthy spirits,
 And stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

 George Chapman
 The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron [1608], act III, sc. i





 Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea
 Loves t' have his sails filled with a lusty wind,
 Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,
 And his rapt ship run on her side so low
 That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

 George Chapman
 The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron [1608], act III, sc. i





 Danger, the spur of all great minds.

 George Chapman
 The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois [1610], act V, sc. i





 We have watered our horses in Helicon.

 George Chapman
 May-Day [1611], act III, sc. iii



 Maximilien de Bethune , Duc de Sully

 1559-1641


    Tilling and grazing are the two breasts that feed France.

 Maximilien de Bethune , Duc de Sully
 Economies Royales, III



 Robert Greene

 c. 1560-1592


 Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content;
 The quiet mind is richer than a crown.

 Robert Greene
 Farewell to Folly [1591],st. 1





 A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

 Robert Greene
 Farewell to Folly [1591],st. 2





    For there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his
 tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, 1  supposes he is as well able to
 bumbast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes
 fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.

 Robert Greene
 The Croatsworth of Wit [1592]

 1 See Shakespeare




 Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time.

 Robert Greene
 Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay [acted 1594], actIII





 Hell's broken loose. 1

 Robert Greene
 Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay [acted 1594], actIV

 1 See Milton


 Francis Bacon

 1561-1626
 

    I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

 Francis Bacon
 Letter to Lord Burleigh [1592]





    The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

 Francis Bacon
 Essex's Device [1595]





    Knowledge is power [Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est].

 Francis Bacon
 Meditationes Sacrae [1597]. De Haeresibus





    For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an
 impression of pleasure in itself.

 Francis Bacon
 The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.I,i, 3





    Time, which is the author of authors.

 Francis Bacon
 The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.I,iv, 12





    If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he
 will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

 Francis Bacon
 The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.I,v,8





    Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. These times are the ancient times,
 when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine
 retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.

 Francis Bacon
 The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.I,v,8





    [Knowledge] is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the
 relief of man's estate.

 Francis Bacon
 The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.I,v,11





    It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness,
 because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shows of things
 to the desires of the mind.

 Francis Bacon
 The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.II,iv, 2





    They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see
 nothing but sea.

 Francis Bacon
 The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.II,vii, 5





    But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only
 for God and angels to be lookers on.

 Francis Bacon
 The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.II,xx, 8





    We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and
 not what they ought to do.

 Francis Bacon
 The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.II,xxi, 9





    All good moral philosophy is but the handmaid to religion.

 Francis Bacon
 The Advancement of Learning [1605], bk.II,xxii, 14





    There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering
 truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general
 axioms . . . this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the
 senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it
 arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as
 yet untried.

 Francis Bacon
 Novum Organum [1620]





    There are four classes of Idols which beset men's minds. To these for
 distinction's sake I have assigned names-calling the first class, Idols of
 the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the
 Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theater.

 Francis Bacon
 Novum Organum [1620]Aphorism39





    The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays
 irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own
 nature with it.

 Francis Bacon
 Novum Organum [1620]Aphorism41





    Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

 Francis Bacon
 Novum Organum [1620]Aphorism129





    I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and
 do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken
 reed. 1

 Francis Bacon
 On being charged by Parliament with corruption in office [1621]

 1 See Isaiah 36:6




    Lucid intervals and happy pauses.

 Francis Bacon
 History of King Henry VII [1622], III





    Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

 Francis Bacon
 De Augmentis Scientiarum, bk. II,Fortitudo [1623]





    Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

 Francis Bacon
 De Augmentis Scientiarum, bk. II,Antitheta





    Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

 Francis Bacon
 Apothegms [1624], no.36





    Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the
 mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.

 Francis Bacon
 Apothegms [1624], no.54





    Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont
 to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner."

 Francis Bacon
 Apothegms [1624], no.76





    Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears
 to be best in four things-old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old
 friends to trust, and old authors to read.

 Francis Bacon
 Apothegms [1624], no.97





    Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We
 read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought
 to forgive our friends."

 Francis Bacon
 Apothegms [1624], no.206





    Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them
 with new.

 Francis Bacon
 Apothegms [1624], no.247





    My essays . . . come home to men's business and bosoms.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],dedication





    What is truth? said jesting Pilate, 1  and would not stay for an answer.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Truth

 1 See John 18:38




    No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of
 truth.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Truth





    Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural
 fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. 1

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Death

 1 See Lucretius




    Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to,
 the more ought law to weed it out.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Revenge





    It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that
 "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good
 things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Adversity





    Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the
 blessing of the New.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Adversity





    Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not
 without comforts and hopes.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Adversity





    Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover
 virtue.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Adversity





    Virtue is like precious odors-most fragrant when they are incensed or
 crushed.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Adversity





    He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they
 are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Marriage and Single Life





    Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old
 men's nurses.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Marriage and Single Life





    A good name is like a precious ointment; it filleth all around about, and
 will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those
 of flowers.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Praise





    In charity there is no excess.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature





    If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen
 of the world, 1  2  3  4  and that his heart is no island cut off from other
 lands, but a continent that joins to them. 5  6  7

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature

 1 See Socrates
 2 See Paine
 3 See Garrison
 4 See F. D. Roosevelt
 5 See Romans 14:7
 6 See Donne
 7 See Quarles




    The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of
 knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature





    Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Seditions and Troubles





    I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the
 Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Atheism





    A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in
 philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Atheism





    Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part
 of experience. He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance
 into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Travel





    Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and
 which have much veneration but no rest. 1

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Empire

 1 See Shelley




    Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little,
 the price will fall.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Delays





    Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Cunning





    Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others. 1

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Wisdom for a Man's Self

 1 See Shakespeare




    It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on
 fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Wisdom for a Man's Self





    He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is
 the greatest innovator.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Innovations





    Cure the disease and kill the patient.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Friendship





    Riches are for spending.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Expense





    There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's own
 observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best
 physic to preserve health.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Regimen of Health





    Intermingle . . . jest with earnest. 1  2  3  4

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Discourse

 1 See Menander
 2 See Horace
 3 See Montaigne
 4 See Linnaeus




    Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Nature in Men





    If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though
 she is blind, she is not invisible.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Fortune





    Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands. 1  2  3  4  5

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Fortune

 1 See Sallust
 2 See Shakespeare
 3 See Tennyson
 4 See Henley
 5 See Nehru




    Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than
 for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Youth and Age





    Virtue is like a rich stone-best plain set.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Beauty





    There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the
 proportion.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Beauty





    God Almighty first planted a garden.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Gardens





    He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as
 little of the war as he will.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms





    Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be
 chewed and digested.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Studies





    Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact
 man.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Studies





    Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural
 philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Studies





    The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of
 sects and religions. 1  2

 Francis Bacon
 Essays [1625],Of Vicissitude of Things

 1 See Terence
 2 See Sterne




    I bequeath my soul to God. . . . My body to be buried obscurely. For my
 name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign
 nations, and the next age.

 Francis Bacon
 From his will [1626]





 The world's a bubble, and the life of man
 Less than a span.

 Francis Bacon
 The World [1629]





 Who then to frail mortality shall trust
 But limns on water, or but writes in dust. 1  2  3  4  5

 Francis Bacon
 The World [1629]

 1 See Sophocles
 2 See Catullus
 3 See More
 4 See Shakespeare
 5 See Keats




 What then remains but that we still should cry
 For being born, and, being born, to die?

 Francis Bacon
 The World [1629]





    Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

 Francis Bacon
 Proposition touching amendment of laws



 Sir John Harington

 1561-1612


 Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
 For if it prosper, none dare call it treason. 1

 Sir John Harington
 Epigrams.Of Treason

 1 See Seneca




 The readers and the hearers like my books,
 But yet some writers cannot them digest;
 But what care I? for when I make a feast
 I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

 Sir John Harington
 Epigrams.Of Writers Who Carp at Other Men's Books



 Robert Southwell

 c. 1561-1595


 Times go by turns, and chances change by course,
 From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

 Robert Southwell
 Times Go by Turns [c. 1595], st. 1





 As I in hoary winter night stood shivering in the snow,
 Surprised was I with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;
 And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near
 A pretty Babe all burning bright did in the air appear.

 Robert Southwell
 The Burning Babe [written c. 1595]





 With this he vanished out of sight, and swiftly shrunk away,
 And straight I called unto mind that it was Christmas Day.

 Robert Southwell
 The Burning Babe [written c. 1595]



 Samuel Daniel

 1562-1619


 Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
 Brother to Death, in silent darkness born. 1  2  3  4

 Samuel Daniel
 Sonnets to Delia [1592]

 1 See Homer
 2 See Virgil
 3 See Shakespeare
 4 See Shelley




 Make me to say, when all my griefs are gone,
 "Happy the heart that sighed for such a one!"

 Samuel Daniel
 Sonnets to Delia [1592]Sonnet: I Must Not Grieve





 Let others sing of knights and paladins
 In aged accents and untimely words.

 Samuel Daniel
 Sonnets to Delia [1592]Sonnet: I Must Not Grieve





 These are the arks, the trophies, I erect,
 That fortify thy name against old age.

 Samuel Daniel
 Sonnets to Delia [1592]Sonnet: I Must Not Grieve





 And for the few that only lend their ear,
 That few is all the world.

 Samuel Daniel
 Musophilus [1599],st. 97





 This is the thing that I was born to do.

 Samuel Daniel
 Musophilus [1599],st. 100





 Unless above himself he can
 Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!

 Samuel Daniel
 To the Countess of Cumberland [c. 1600], st. 12





 Love is a sickness full of woes,
 All remedies refusing.

 Samuel Daniel
 Hymen's Triumph [1615]



 Lope de Vega

 1562-1635


    Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.

 Lope de Vega
 Fuenteovejuna [c. 1613],
 act I,l. 381





    Except for God, the King's our only lord.

 Lope de Vega
 Fuenteovejuna [c. 1613],
 act I,l. 1701



 Michael Drayton

 1563-1631


 Fair stood the wind for France.

 Michael Drayton
 The Ballad of Agincourt [1606],st. 1





 O, when shall Englishmen
 With such acts fill a pen,
 Or England breed again
 Such a King Harry?

 Michael Drayton
 The Ballad of Agincourt [1606],st. 15





 Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part-
 Nay, I have done: you get no more of me,
 And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart,
 That thus so cleanly I myself can free.
 Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows,
 And when we meet at any time again,
 Be it not seen in either of our brows
 That we one jot of former love retain.

 Michael Drayton
 Poems [1619]. Idea





 The coast was clear.

 Michael Drayton
 Nymphidia [1627]





 Had in him those brave translunary things
 That the first poets had.

 Michael Drayton
 Said of Marlowe. To Henry Reynolds, Of Poets and Poesy [1627]





 For that fine madness still he did retain
 Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.

 Michael Drayton
 Said of Marlowe. To Henry Reynolds, Of Poets and Poesy [1627]



 Galileo Galilei

 1564-1642


    Philosophy is written in this grand book-I mean the universe-which stands
 continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first
 learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it
 is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters
 are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is
 humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is
 wandering about in a dark labyrinth. 1

 Galileo Galilei
 Il Saggiatore [1623]

 1 See Roger Bacon




    But it does move!

 Galileo Galilei
 Attributed. From Abbe Irailh, Querelles litteraires [1761], vol. III, p. 49





    Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation,
 drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple
 beauty.

 Galileo Galilei
 Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences [1638],
 Day 1



 Christopher Marlowe

 1564-1593


 Our swords shall play the orators for us.

 Christopher Marlowe
 Tamburlaine the Great [c. 1587], pt. I,l. 328





 Accurst be he that first invented war.

 Christopher Marlowe
 Tamburlaine the Great [c. 1587], pt. I,l. 664





 Is it not passing brave to be a king,
 And ride in triumph through Persepolis?

 Christopher Marlowe
 Tamburlaine the Great [c. 1587], pt. I,l. 758





 Nature that framed us of four elements,
 Warring within our breasts for regiment,
 Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds:
 Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend
 The wondrous Architecture of the world:
 And measure every wandering planet's course,
 Still climbing after knowledge infinite,
 And always moving as the restless Spheres,
 Will us to wear ourselves and never rest,
 Until we reach the ripest fruit of all,
 That perfect bliss and sole felicity,
 The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

 Christopher Marlowe
 Tamburlaine the Great [c. 1587], pt. I,l. 869





 Tamburlaine, the Scourge of God, must die.

 Christopher Marlowe
 Tamburlaine the Great [c. 1587], pt. I,l. 4641





 Come live with me, and be my love;
 And we will all the pleasures prove
 That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
 Woods or steepy mountain yields. 1  2

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love [c. 1589]

 1 See Ralegh
 2 See Donne




 By shallow rivers, to whose falls
 Melodious birds sing madrigals.

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love [c. 1589]





 And I will make thee beds of roses
 And a thousand fragrant posies.

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love [c. 1589]





 I count religion but a childish toy,
 And hold there is no sin but ignorance. 1

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Jew of Malta [c. 1589],prologue

 1 See Wilde




 Infinite riches in a little room.

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Jew of Malta [c. 1589],act I, sc.i





 Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Jew of Malta [c. 1589],act I, sc.ii





    Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; 1  that
 is, more knave than fool.

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Jew of Malta [c. 1589],II, sc. iii

 1 See Matthew 10:16




 Friar Barnadine: Thou hast committed-
 Barabas: Fornication-but that was in another country;
 And besides, the wench is dead.

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Jew of Malta [c. 1589],IV, sc. i





 My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,
 Shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay.

 Christopher Marlowe
 Edward II [1593], act I, sc. i





 Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

 Christopher Marlowe
 Hero and Leander [1598]





 Like untuned golden strings all women are,
 Which long time lie untouched, will harshly jar.
 Vessels of brass oft handled brightly shine.

 Christopher Marlowe
 Hero and Leander [1598]





 Live and die in Aristotle's works.

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.i





 Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer,
 Conspired against our God with Lucifer,
 And are forever damned with Lucifer.

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.iii





 Why this is hell, nor am I out of it: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7
 Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God,
 And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven,
 Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,
 In being deprived of everlasting bliss?

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.iii

 1 See Virgil
 2 See Marlowe
 3 See Browne
 4 See Milton
 5 See Eliot
 6 See Sartre
 7 See Lowell




 Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
 In one self place; for where we are is hell,
 And where hell is there must we ever be. 1  2  3  4  5  6  7

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.v

 1 See Virgil
 2 See Marlowe
 3 See Browne
 4 See Milton
 5 See Eliot
 6 See Sartre
 7 See Lowell




 When all the world dissolves,
 And every creature shall be purified,
 All places shall be hell that is not Heaven.

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.v





 Have not I made blind Homer sing to me?

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.vi





 Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
 And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
 Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
 Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies!

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.vi





 Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air
 Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.vi





    Pray for me! and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing
 can rescue me.

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.xvi





 Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
 And then thou must be damned perpetually!
 Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven,
 That time may cease, and midnight never come.

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.xvi





 O lente, lente currite noctis equi:
 The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike,
 The Devil will come, and Faustus must be damned.
 O, I'll leap up to my God! Who pulls me down?
 See, see where Christ's blood streams in the firmament!
 One drop would save my soul-half a drop: ah, my Christ!

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.xvi





 O soul, be changed into little waterdrops,
 And fall into the ocean-ne'er to be found.
 My God! my God! look not so fierce on me!

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.xvi





 I'll burn my books!

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.xvi





 Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
 And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,
 That sometime grew within this learned man.

 Christopher Marlowe
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [1604], sc.xvi



 Matthew Roydon

 c. 1564 - c. 1622


 You knew-who knew not Astrophil?

 Matthew Roydon
 The Phoenix Nest [1593]; An Elegy, or Friend's Passion
 for His Astrophil (on the death of Sir Philip Sidney)





 A sweet attractive kind of grace,
 A full assurance given by looks,
 Continual comfort in a face,
 The lineaments of Gospel books;
 I trow that countenance cannot lie.
 Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.

 Matthew Roydon
 The Phoenix Nest [1593]; An Elegy, or Friend's Passion
 for His Astrophil (on the death of Sir Philip Sidney)





 Was never eye, did see that face,
 Was never ear, did hear that tongue,
 Was never mind, did mind his grace,
 That ever thought the travel long,
 But eyes, and ears, and ev'ry thought,
 Were with his sweet perfections caught.

 Matthew Roydon
 The Phoenix Nest [1593]; An Elegy, or Friend's Passion
 for His Astrophil (on the death of Sir Philip Sidney)



 William Shakespeare

 1564-1616
 

 Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 1





 Fight till the last gasp.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 127





 Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 131

 1 See Aristophanes




 Glory is like a circle in the water,
 Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
 Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 133





 Unbidden guests
 Are often welcomest when they are gone.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 55





 Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;
 Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;
 Between two blades, which bears the better temper;
 Between two horses, which doth bear him best;
 Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye;
 I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment;
 But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
 Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 12





 I'll note you in my book of memory.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 101





 Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 29





 Choked with ambition of the meaner sort.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 123





 Delays have dangerous ends.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 33





 Of all base passions, fear is most accursed.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 18





 She's beautiful and therefore to be wooed,
 She is a woman, therefore to be won.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 78





 For what is wedlock forced, but a hell,
 An age of discord and continual strife?
 Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
 And is a pattern of celestial peace.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part I [1591],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 62





 Whose large style
 Agrees not with the leanness of his purse.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 112





 'Tis not my speeches that you do mislike,
 But 'tis my presence that doth trouble ye.
 Rancor will out.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 141





 Could I come near your beauty with my nails
 I'd set my ten commandments in your face.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 144





 Blessed are the peacemakers on earth. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 34

 1 See Matthew 5:9




 Now, God be praised, that to believing souls
 Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 66





 God defend the right!

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 55





 Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;
 And after summer evermore succeeds
 Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:
 So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 1





 Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
 Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 31





 In thy face I see
 The map of honor, truth, and loyalty.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 202





 What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!
 Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
 And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
 Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 232

 1 See Milton




 He dies, and makes no sign.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 29





 Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. 1
 Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close;
 And let us all to meditation.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 31

 1 See Matthew 7:1




 The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
 Is crept into the bosom of the sea.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 1





 Small things make base men proud.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 106





 True nobility is exempt from fear.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 129





    I will make it felony to drink small beer.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 75





    The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 86





    Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb
 should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo
 a man?

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 88





    Adam was a gardener. 1  2  3  4  5

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 146

 1 See Genesis 2:8
 2 See Bacon
 3 See Hamlet
 4 See Tennyson
 5 See Kipling




    Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at
 this day to testify it.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 160





    Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting
 a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books
 but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and,
 contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part II [1591],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 35





 Beggars mounted run their horse to death.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 127





 O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide! 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 137

 1 See Robert Greene




 To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 85





 The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 17





 Didst thou never hear
 That things ill got had ever bad success?
 And happy always was it for that son
 Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 45





 Thou [Death] setter up and plucker down of kings.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 37





 And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity?

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 22





 My crown is in my heart, not on my head;
 Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones,
 Nor to be seen: my crown is called content;
 A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 62

 1 See Robert Greene




 'Tis a happy thing
 To be the father unto many sons.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 104





 Like one that stands upon a promontory,
 And spies a far-off shore where he would tread,
 Wishing his foot were equal with his eye.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 135





 Yield not thy neck
 To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
 Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 16





 For how can tyrants safely govern home,
 Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 69





 Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 152





 Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 18





 Let us be backed with God and with the seas
 Which he hath given for fence impregnable,
 And with their helps only defend ourselves:
 In them and in ourselves our safety lies.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 43





 What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
 It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 57





 Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 39





 For many men that stumble at the threshold
 Are well foretold that danger lurks within.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 11





 A little fire is quickly trodden out,
 Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: IV, Scene: viii, Line: 7





 When the lion fawns upon the lamb,
 The lamb will never cease to follow him.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: IV, Scene: viii, Line: 49





 What is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
 And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 27





 Every cloud engenders not a storm.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 13





 What though the mast be now blown overboard,
 The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,
 And half our sailors swallowed in the flood?
 Yet lives our pilot still.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 3





 So part we sadly in this troublous world
 To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 7





 Men ne'er spend their fury on a child.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 57





 He's sudden if a thing comes in his head.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 86





 Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
 The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: V, Scene: vi, Line: 11





 This word "love," which greybeards call divine.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Sixth, Part III
 [1591],Act: V, Scene: vi, Line: 81





 Now is the winter of our discontent
 Made glorious summer by this sun of York.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 1





 Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 9





 He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
 To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 12





 This weak piping time of peace.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 24





 No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 71





 Look, how my ring encompasseth thy finger,
 Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart;
 Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 204





 Was ever woman in this humor wooed?
 Was ever woman in this humor won?

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 229





 Framed in the prodigality of nature.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 245





 The world is grown so bad,
 That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 70

 1 See Pope




 And thus I clothe my naked villany
 With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ,
 And seem a saint when most I play the devil.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 336





 Talkers are no good doers.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 351





 O, I have passed a miserable night,
 So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,
 That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
 I would not spend another such a night,
 Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 2





 Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown:
 What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!
 What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
 Methought I saw a thousand fearful wracks;
 A thousand men that fishes gnaw upon.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 21





 The kingdom of perpetual night. 1  2  3  4  5

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 47

 1 See Catullus
 2 See Campion
 3 See Jonson
 4 See Herrick
 5 See Fouche




 Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
 Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 76





 A parlous boy.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 35





 So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 79





 Off with his head! 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 75

 1 See Colley Cibber
 2 See Lewis Carroll




 Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,
 Ready with every nod to tumble down
 Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 98





 I am not in the giving vein today.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 115





 The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 38

 1 See Luke 16:22




 A grievous burden was thy birth to me;
 Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 168





 An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 359





 Harp not on that string.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 365





 Relenting fool, and shallow changing woman!

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 432





 Is the chair empty? is the sword unswayed?
 Is the king dead? the empire unpossessed?

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 470





 Thus far into the bowels of the land
 Have we marched on without impediment.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 3





 True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
 Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 23





 The king's name is a tower of strength.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 12





 Give me another horse! bind up my wounds!

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 178





 O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 180





 My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
 And every tongue brings in a several tale,
 And every tale condemns me for a villain.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 194





 By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight
 Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
 Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 217





 Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
 Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 310





 A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 7





 I have set my life upon a cast,
 And I will stand the hazard of the die.
 I think there be six Richmonds in the field.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Third [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 9





 The pleasing punishment that women bear.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 46





 We may pity, though not pardon thee.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 97





 Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.
 There's nothing situate under heaven's eye
 But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 15





    Every why hath a wherefore.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 45





    There's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 74





    What he hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 83





 Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 26





 There is something in the wind.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 69





 We'll pluck a crow together.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 83





 For slander lives upon succession,
 Forever housed where it gets possession.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 105





 Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 10





 Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 20





 A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 37





 Give me your hand and let me feel your pulse.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 54





 The venom clamors of a jealous woman
 Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 69





 Unquiet meals make ill digestions.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 74





 One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain,
 A mere anatomy, a mountebank,
 A threadbare juggler, and a fortune-teller,
 A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch,
 A living-dead man.

 William Shakespeare
 The Comedy of Errors [1592-1593],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 238





 Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

 William Shakespeare
 Titus Andronicus [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 119





 These words are razors to my wounded heart.

 William Shakespeare
 Titus Andronicus [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 314





 He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

 William Shakespeare
 Titus Andronicus [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 390





 These dreary dumps.

 William Shakespeare
 Titus Andronicus [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 391





 What you cannot as you would achieve,
 You must perforce accomplish as you may.

 William Shakespeare
 Titus Andronicus [1593-1594],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 106





 The eagle suffers little birds to sing.
 And is not careful what they mean thereby.

 William Shakespeare
 Titus Andronicus [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 82





 Tut! I have done a thousand dreadful things
 As willingly as one would kill a fly.

 William Shakespeare
 Titus Andronicus [1593-1594],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 141





    I'll not budge an inch.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: Induction, Scene: i, Line: 13





 And if the boy have not a woman's gift
 To rain a shower of commanded tears,
 An onion will do well for such a shift.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: Induction, Scene: i, Line: 124





 No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;
 In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 39





    There's small choice in rotten apples.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 137





 To seek their fortunes further than at home,
 Where small experience grows.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 51





    Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 82





 And do as adversaries do in law,
 Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 281





 I must dance barefoot on her wedding day,
 And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 33





 Asses are made to bear, and so are you.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 200





 Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 318





 Old fashions please me best.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 81





 Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure. 1

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 11

 1 See Congreve




 Such an injury would vex a saint.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 28





    A little pot and soon hot.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 6





 It was the friar of orders gray
 As he forth walked on his way. 1

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 148

 1 See Anonymous




 Sits as one new-risen from a dream.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 189





 This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 211





 Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
 Shall win my love.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 41





 Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor:
 For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
 And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
 So honor peereth in the meanest habit.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 173





 Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
 And be it moon, or sun, or what you please:
 An if you please to call it a rush-candle,
 Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 12





 He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 20





 A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
 Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 143





 Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
 Even such a woman oweth to her husband.

 William Shakespeare
 The Taming of the Shrew [1593-1594],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 156





 Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

 William Shakespeare
 Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 145





 Love is a spirit all compact of fire,
 Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire.

 William Shakespeare
 Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 149





 O! What a war of looks was then between them.

 William Shakespeare
 Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 355





 Like a red morn, that ever yet betokened
 Wrack to the seaman, tempest to the field.

 William Shakespeare
 Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 453





 The owl, night's herald.

 William Shakespeare
 Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 531





 Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

 William Shakespeare
 Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 799





 The text is old, the orator too green.

 William Shakespeare
 Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 806





 For he being dead, with him is beauty slain,
 And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 1019

 1 See Othello




 The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.

 William Shakespeare
 Venus and Adonis [1593],l. 1028





 Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
 The eyes of men without an orator.

 William Shakespeare
 The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 29





 This silent war of lilies and of roses,
 Which Tarquin viewed in her fair face's field.

 William Shakespeare
 The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 71





 Those that much covet are with gain so fond,
 For what they have not, that which they possess
 They scatter and unloose it from their bond,
 And so, by hoping more, they have but less.

 William Shakespeare
 The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 134





 One for all, or all for one we gage. 1

 William Shakespeare
 The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 144

 1 See Dumas




 Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
 Or sells eternity to get a toy?
 For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?

 William Shakespeare
 The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 213





 Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

 William Shakespeare
 The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 230





 All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth.

 William Shakespeare
 The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 268





 Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
 To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

 William Shakespeare
 The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 939





 For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

 William Shakespeare
 The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 1006





 To see sad sights moves more than hear them told.

 William Shakespeare
 The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 1324





 Cloud-kissing Ilion.

 William Shakespeare
 The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 1370





 Lucrece swears he did her wrong.

 William Shakespeare
 The Rape of Lucrece [1594],l. 1462





 Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

 William Shakespeare
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 2





 I have no other but a woman's reason:
 I think him so, because I think him so.

 William Shakespeare
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 23





 Julia: They do not love that do not show their love.
 Lucetta: O! they love least that let men know their love.

 William Shakespeare
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 31





 Since maids, in modesty, say "No" to that
 Which they would have the profferer construe "Aye."

 William Shakespeare
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 53





 O! how this spring of love resembleth
 The uncertain glory of an April day!

 William Shakespeare
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 84





 O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
 As a nose on a man's face, 1  or a weathercock on a steeple!

 William Shakespeare
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 145

 1 See Rabelais




 He makes sweet music with th' enamelled stones.

 William Shakespeare
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 28





 That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
 If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

 William Shakespeare
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 104





 Except I be by Silvia in the night,
 There is no music in the nightingale.

 William Shakespeare
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 178





 Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.

 William Shakespeare
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 72





 Who is Silvia? what is she,
 That all our swains commend her?
 Holy, fair, and wise is she;
 The heaven such grace did lend her,
 That she might admired be.

 William Shakespeare
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 40





 Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

 William Shakespeare
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 190





 Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

 William Shakespeare
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 12





 How use doth breed a habit in a man!

 William Shakespeare
 The Two Gentlemen of Verona [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 1





 Spite of cormorant devouring Time.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 4





 Make us heirs of all eternity.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 7





 Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain
 Which, with pain purchased doth inherit pain.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 72





 Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 77





 Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
 That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks;
 Small have continual plodders ever won,
 Save base authority from others' books.
 These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights
 That give a name to every fixed star,
 Have no more profit of their shining nights
 Than those that walk and wot not what they are.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 84





 At Christmas I no more desire a rose
 Than wish a snow in May's newfangled mirth;
 But like of each thing that in season grows.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 105





    And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 237





    That unlettered small-knowing soul.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 251





    A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet
 understanding, a woman.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 263





    Affiction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 312





    Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 194





 Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye,
 Not uttered by base sale of chapmen's tongues.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 15





 A man of sovereign parts he is esteemed;
 Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms:
 Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 44





 A merrier man,
 Within the limit of becoming mirth,
 I never spent an hour's talk withal.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 66





 Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast,  'twill tire.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 119





    Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 1





    Remuneration! O! that's the Latin word for three farthings.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 143





 A very beadle to a humorous sigh.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 185





 This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy,
 This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
 Regent of love-rimes, lord of folded arms,
 The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
 Liege of all loiters and malcontents.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 189





    He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred of a book; he hath not eat
 paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 25





 Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 34





    You two are book-men.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 35





    These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia
 mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 70





    By heaven, I do love, and it hath taught me to rime, and to be
 melancholy.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 13





 The heavenly rhetoric of thine eye.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 60





 Young blood doth not obey an old decree:
 We cannot cross the cause why we were born.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 217





 For where is any author in the world
 Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
 Learning is but an adjunct to ourself.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 312





 But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,
 Lives not alone immured in the brain.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 327





 It adds a precious seeing to the eye.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 333





 As sweet and musical
 As bright Apollo's lute, 1  strung with his hair;
 And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
 Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 342

 1 See Milton




 From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
 They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
 They are the books, the arts, the academes,
 That show, contain, and nourish all the world.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 350





    He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his
 argument.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 18





    Moth: They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the
 scraps.
 Costard: O! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy
 master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head
 as honorificabilitudinitatibus; thou art easier swallowed than a
 flap-dragon.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 39





    In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the
 afternoon.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 96





 Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
 Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,
 Figures pedantical.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 407





    Let me take you a button-hole lower.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 705





    The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 715





 A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
 Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
 Of him that makes it.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 869





 When daisies pied and violets blue,
 And lady-smocks all silver-white,
 And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
 Do paint the meadows with delight,
 The cuckoo then, on every tree,
 Mocks married men; for thus sings he,
 Cuckoo;
 Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear,
 Unpleasing to a married ear.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 902





 When icicles hang by the wall,
 And Dick, the shepherd, blows his nail,
 And Tom bears logs into the hall,
 And milk comes frozen home in pail,
 When blood is nipped and ways be foul,
 Then nightly sings the staring owl,
 Tu-who;
 Tu-whit, tu-who-a merry note,
 While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 920





 When all aloud the wind doth blow,
 And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
 And birds sit brooding in the snow,
 And Marian's nose looks red and raw,
 When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 929





    The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

 William Shakespeare
 Love's Labour's Lost [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 938





 A pair of star-crossed lovers.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],prologue, l. 6





 Saint-seducing gold.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 220





 One fire burns out another's burning, 1
 One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 47

 1 See Chapman




 I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 92





 For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 37





 We burn daylight.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 43





 O! then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you! . . .
 She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
 In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
 On the forefinger of an alderman,
 Drawn with a team of little atomies
 Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 53





 True, I talk of dreams,
 Which are the children of an idle brain,
 Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 97





 For you and I are past our dancing days.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 35





 It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
 Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
 Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 49





 My only love sprung from my only hate!
 Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 142





 Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim
 When King Cophetua loved the beggarmaid. 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 13

 1 See Tennyson
 2 See Anonymous




 He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.
 But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
 It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 1





 She speaks, yet she says nothing.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 12





 See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand:
 O! that I were a glove upon that hand,
 That I might touch that cheek.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 23





 O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
 Deny thy father, and refuse thy name;
 Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
 And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 33





 What's in a name? That which we call a rose
 By any other name would smell as sweet.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 43





 For stony limits cannot hold love out.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 67





 At lovers' perjuries,
 They say, Jove laughs.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 92





 In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 98





 I'll prove more true
 Than those that have more cunning to be strange.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 100





 Romeo: Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear
 That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops-
 Juliet: O! swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
 That monthly changes in her circled orb,
 Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 107





 Do not swear at all;
 Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
 Which is the god of my idolatry.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 112





 It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
 Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
 Ere one can say it lightens.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 118





 This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
 May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 121





 Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;
 But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 156





 O! for a falconer's voice,
 To lure this tassel-gentle back again.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 158





 How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
 Like softest music to attending ears!

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 165





 I would have thee gone;
 And yet no further than a wanton's bird,
 Who lets it hop a little from her hand,
 Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
 And with a silk thread plucks it back again,
 So loving-jealous of his liberty.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 176





 Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
 That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 184





 Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;
 And vice sometime's by action dignified.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 21





 Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
 And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 35





 Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 94

 1 See Chaucer




    One, two, and the third in your bosom.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 24





    O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 41





    The very pink of courtesy. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 63

 1 See Cervantes




    A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more
 in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 156





 These violent delights have violent ends.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 9





 Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; 1  2
 Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 14

 1 See Herrick
 2 See Anonymous




 Here comes the lady: O! so light a foot
 Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 16





    Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 23





    A word and a blow.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 44





    No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis
 enough, 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave
 man.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 101





 A plague o' both your houses!
 They have made worms' meat of me.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 112





 O! I am Fortune's fool.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 142





 Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,
 Towards Phoebus' lodging.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 1





 When he shall die,
 Take him and cut him out in little stars,
 And he will make the face of heaven so fine
 That all the world will be in love with night,
 And pay no worship to the garish sun.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 21





 He was not born to shame:
 Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 91





 Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man:
 Affiction is enamored of thy parts,
 And thou art wedded to calamity.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 1





 Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 54





 Hang up philosophy!
 Unless philosophy can make a Juliet.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 56





 The lark, the herald of the morn.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 6





 Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
 Stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 9





 Villain and he be many miles asunder.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 82





 Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 153





 Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
 That sees into the bottom of my grief?

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 198





 Past hope, past cure, past help!

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 45





    'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 6





 Apothecary: My poverty, but not my will, consents.
 Romeo: I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 75





 The strength
 Of twenty men.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 78





 The time and my intents are savage-wild,
 More fierce and more inexorable far
 Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 39





 Tempt not a desperate man.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 59





 One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 82





 How oft when men are at the point of death
 Have they been merry!

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 88





 Beauty's ensign yet
 Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
 And death's pale flag is not advanced there.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 94





 O! here
 Will I set up my everlasting rest,
 And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
 From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
 Arms, take your last embrace!

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 109





 O true apothecary!
 Thy drugs are quick.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 119





 See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
 That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 292





 For never was a story of more woe
 Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

 William Shakespeare
 Romeo and Juliet [1594-1595],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 309





 The purest treasure mortal times afford
 Is spotless reputation.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 177





 Mine honor is my life; both grow in one;
 Take honor from me, and my life is done.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 182





 We were not born to sue, but to command.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 196





 The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 68





 Truth hath a quiet breast.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 96





 How long a time lies in one little word!

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 213





 Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 236





 Must I not serve a long apprenticehood
 To foreign passages, and in the end,
 Having my freedom, boast of nothing else
 But that I was a journeyman to grief?

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 271





 All places that the eye of heaven visits
 Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
 Teach thy necessity to reason thus;
 There is no virtue like necessity. 1
 Think not the king did banish thee,
 But thou the king.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 275

 1 See Quintilian




 For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
 The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 292





 O! who can hold a fire in his hand
 By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
 Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
 By bare imagination of a feast?
 Or wallow naked in December snow
 By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
 O, no! the apprehension of the good
 Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 294





 Where'er I wander, boast of this I can,
 Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 308





 The tongues of dying men
 Enforce attention like deep harmony.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 5





 The setting sun, and music at the close,
 As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,
 Writ in remembrance more than things long past.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 12





 Report of fashions in proud Italy,
 Whose manners still our tardy apish nation
 Limps after in base imitation.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 21





 For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
 Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 34





 This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle,
 This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
 This other Eden, demi-paradise,
 This fortress built by Nature for herself
 Against infection and the hand of war,
 This happy breed of men, this little world,
 This precious stone set in the silver sea,
 Which serves it in the office of a wall,
 Or as a moat defensive to a house,
 Against the envy of less happier lands,
 This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
 This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
 Feared by their breed and famous by their birth.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 40





 England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
 Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
 Of watery Neptune.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 61





 That England, that was wont to conquer others,
 Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 65





 A lunatic lean-witted fool,
 Presuming on an ague's privilege.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 115





 The ripest fruit first falls.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 154





 Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 14





 I count myself in nothing else so happy
 As in a soul remembering my good friends.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 46





 Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 65





 Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 87





 The caterpillars of the commonwealth,
 Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 166





 Things past redress are now with me past care.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 171





 I see thy glory like a shooting star
 Fall to the base earth from the firmament.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 19





 Eating the bitter bread of banishment. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 21

 1 See Isaiah 30:20




 Not all the water in the rough rude sea
 Can wash the balm from an anointed king.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 54





 O! call back yesterday, bid time return. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 69

 1 See Thomas Heywood




 The worst is death, and death will have his day.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 103





 Of comfort no man speak:
 Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
 Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes
 Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth;
 Let's choose executors and talk of wills.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 144





 And nothing can we call our own but death,
 And that small model of the barren earth
 Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
 For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
 And tell sad stories of the death of kings:
 How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
 Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
 Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed;
 All murdered: for within the hollow crown
 That rounds the mortal temples of a king
 Keeps Death his court.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 152





 Comes at the last, and with a little pin
 Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 169





 He is come to open
 The purple testament of bleeding war.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 93





 O! that I were as great
 As is my grief, or lesser than my name,
 Or that I could forget what I have been,
 Or not remember what I must be now.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 136





 I'll give my jewels for a set of beads,
 My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
 My gay apparel for an almsman's gown.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 147





 And my large kingdom for a little grave,
 A little little grave, an obscure grave.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 153





 And there at Venice gave
 His body to that pleasant country's earth,
 And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,
 Under whose colors he had fought so long.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 97





 Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 139





 So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve,
 Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none.
 God save the king! Will no man say, amen?

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 170





 Now is this golden crown like a deep well
 That owes two buckets filling one another;
 The emptier ever dancing in the air,
 The other down, unseen and full of water:
 That bucket down and full of tears am I,
 Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 184





 You may my glories and my state depose,
 But not my griefs; still am I king of those.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 192





 Some of you with Pilate wash your hands, 1
 Showing an outward pity.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 239

 1 See Matthew 27:24




 A mockery king of snow.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 260





 As in a theater, the eyes of men,
 After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
 Are idly bent on him that enters next,
 Thinking his prattle to be tedious.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 23





 How sour sweet music is
 When time is broke and no proportion kept!
 So is it in the music of men's lives.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 42





 I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;
 For now hath time made me his numbering clock;
 My thoughts are minutes.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 49





 This music mads me: let it sound no more.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 61





 Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high,
 Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die.

 William Shakespeare
 King Richard the Second [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 112





 To live a barren sister all your life,
 Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 72





 But earthlier happy is the rose distilled,
 Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
 Grows, lives and dies, in single blessedness.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 76





 For aught that I could ever read,
 Could ever hear by tale or history,
 The course of true love never did run smooth.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 132





 Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
 Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
 That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
 And ere a man hath power to say, "Behold!"
 The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
 So quick bright things come to confusion.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 144





 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
 And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 234





    The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 11





    Masters, spread yourselves.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 16





    This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 43





    I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 55





    I am slow of study.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 70





    That would hang us, every mother's son.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 81





    I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any
 sucking dove; I will roar you as 'twere any nightingale.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 85





    A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day; a most lovely,
 gentleman-like man.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 89





 Over hill, over dale, 1
 Thorough bush, thorough brier,
 Over park, over pale,
 Thorough flood, thorough fire.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 2

 1 See Gruber




 I must go seek some dew drops here,
 And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 14





 I am that merry wanderer of the night.
 I jest to Oberon, and make him smile
 When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
 Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:
 And sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl,
 In very likeness of a roasted crab.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 43





 Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 60





 Since once I sat upon a promontory,
 And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
 Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
 That the rude sea grew civil at her song,
 And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
 To hear the sea-maid's music.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 149





 And the imperial votaress passed on,
 In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
 Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
 It fell upon a little western flower,
 Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
 And maidens call it, Love-in-idleness.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 163





 I'll put a girdle round about the earth
 In forty minutes. 1

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 175

 1 See Chapman




 For you in my respect are all the world:
 Then how can it be said I am alone,
 When all the world is here to look on me?

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 224





 I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows,
 Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
 Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
 With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine:
 There sleeps Titania some time of the night,
 Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight;
 And there the snake throws her enamelled skin,
 Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 249





 Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds,
 Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings,
 To make my small elves coats.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 3





 The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots, and wonders
 At our quaint spirits.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 6





 You spotted snakes with double tongue,
 Thorny hedge-hogs, be not seen;
 Newts, and blind-worms, do no wrong;
 Come not near our fairy queen.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 9





 Night and silence! who is here?
 Weeds of Athens he doth wear.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 70





 As a surfeit of the sweetest things
 The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. 1

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 137

 1 See King Henry IV, Part I




    To bring in-God shield us!-a lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing,
 for there is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 32





    A calendar, a calendar! look in the almanack; find out moonshine.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 55





    Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 124





 Lord, what fools these mortals be! 1

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 115

 1 See Seneca




 So we grew together,
 Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
 But yet an union in partition;
 Two lovely berries molded on one stem.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 208





 Though she be but little, she is fierce.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 325





    I have a reasonable good ear in music: let us have the tongs and the
 bones.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 32





    Truly, a peck of provender: I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks I
 have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 36





    I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 44





 My Oberon! what visions have I seen!
 Methought I was enamored of an ass.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 82





 I never heard
 So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 123





    I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 211





    The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, 1  man's
 hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report,
 what my dream was.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 218

 1 See I Corinthians 2:9




    Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 44





 The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
 Are of imagination all compact:
 One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
 That is, the madman; the lover, all as frantic,
 Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
 The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
 Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
 And, as imagination bodies forth
 The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
 Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
 A local habitation and a name.
 Such tricks hath strong imagination,
 That, if it would but apprehend some joy,
 It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
 Or in the night, imagining some fear,
 How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 7





 Very tragical mirth.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 57





 The true beginning of our end.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 111





    The best in this kind are but shadows.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 215





    A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 232





    All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon; I,
 the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 263





    Well roared, Lion!

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 272





    This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man
 look sad.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 295





    With the help of a surgeon, he might yet recover, and prove an ass.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 318





    No epilogue, I pray you, for your play needs no excuse. Never excuse. 1
 2

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 363

 1 See Meurier
 2 See King John




 The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;
 Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 372





 If we shadows have offended,
 Think but this, and all is mended,
 That you have but slumbered here
 While these visions did appear.

 William Shakespeare
 A Midsummer-Night's Dream [1595-1596],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 54





 Your mind is tossing on the ocean.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 8





 My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,
 Nor to one place.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 42





 Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 51





 You have too much respect upon the world:
 They lose it that do buy it with much care.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 74





 I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;
 A stage, where every man must play a part, 1
 And mine a sad one.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 77

 1 See As You Like It




 Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,
 Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 83





 There are a sort of men whose visages
 Do cream and mantle like a standing pond.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 88





 I am Sir Oracle,
 And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 93





 I do know of these,
 That therefore only are reputed wise
 For saying nothing.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 95





 Fish not, with this melancholy bait,
 For this fool-gudgeon, this opinion.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 101





    Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all
 Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff:
 you shall seek all day ere you find them, and, when you have them, they are
 not worth the search.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 114





 In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
 I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight
 The selfsame way with more advised watch,
 To find the other forth, and by adventuring both,
 I oft found both.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 141





    They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with
 nothing.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 5





    Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 9





    If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been
 churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 13





    The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a
 cold decree.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 19





    He doth nothing but talk of his horse.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 43





    I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so
 full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 51





    God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 59





    When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst,
 he is little better than a beast.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 93





    I dote on his very absence.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 118





    My meaning in saying he is a good man is to have you understand me that
 he is sufficient.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 15





    Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats,
 land-thieves and water-thieves.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 22





    Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the
 Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk
 with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you,
 drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto?

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 34





 How like a fawning publican he looks!
 I hate him for he is a Christian.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 42





 If I can catch him once upon the hip, 1  2
 I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 47

 1 See Heywood
 2 See The Merchant of Venice




 Cursed be my tribe,
 If I forgive him.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 52





 The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 99





 A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
 O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 102





 For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
 You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
 And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 111





 Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key,
 With bated breath and whispering humbleness,
 Say this.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 124





 I'll seal to such a bond,
 And say there is much kindness in the Jew.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 153





 O father Abram! what these Christians are,
 Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect
 The thoughts of others.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 161





 I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 180





 Mislike me not for my complexion,
 The shadowed livery of the burnished sun.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 1





 If Hercules and Lichas play at dice
 Which is the better man, the greater throw
 May turn by fortune from the weaker hand.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 32





    O heavens! this is my true-begotten father.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 36





    An honest, exceeding poor man.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 54





    The very staff of my age, my very prop.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 71





    It is a wise father that knows his own child.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 83





 And the vile squealing of the wry-necked fife.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 30





 Who riseth from a feast
 With that keen appetite that he sits down?

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 8





 All things that are,
 Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.
 How like a younker or a prodigal
 The scarfed bark puts from her native bay,
 Hugged and embraced by the strumpet wind!
 How like the prodigal doth she return,
 With over-weathered ribs and ragged sails,
 Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind!

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 12





 But love is blind, 1  2  and lovers cannot see
 The pretty follies that themselves commit.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 36

 1 See Chaucer
 2 See A Midsummer-Night's Dream




 Must I hold a candle to my shames?

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: vi, Line: 41





 Men that hazard all
 Do it in hope of fair advantages:
 A golden mind stoops not to show of dross.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 18





 Young in limbs, in judgment old.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 71





 My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!
 Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!
 Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!
 A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,
 Of double ducats, stol'n from me by my daughter!

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: viii, Line: 15





 The fool multitude, that choose by show.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ix, Line: 26





 I will not jump with common spirits
 And rank me with the barbarous multitude.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ix, Line: 32





 Let none presume
 To wear an undeserved dignity.
 O! that estates, degrees, and offices
 Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honor
 Were purchased by the merit of the wearer.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ix, Line: 39





 Some there be that shadows kiss;
 Such have but a shadow's bliss.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: ix, Line: 66





    Let him look to his bond.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 49





    I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
 dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 62





    If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if
 you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 65





    The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will
 better the instruction.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 76





    I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 130





 There's something tells me, but it is not love,
 I would not lose you; and you know yourself,
 Hate counsels not in such a quality.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 4





 Makes a swanlike end,
 Fading in music. 1  2  3  4

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 44

 1 See Plato
 2 See King John
 3 See Byron
 4 See Anonymous




 Tell me where is fancy bred,
 Or in the heart or in the head?
 How begot, how nourished?
 Reply, reply.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 63





 In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
 But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
 Obscures the show of evil?

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 75





 There is no vice so simple but assumes
 Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 81





 Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
 To a most dangerous sea.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 97





 The seeming truth which cunning times put on
 To entrap the wisest.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 100





 How all the other passions fleet to air,
 As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,
 And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 108





 An unlessoned girl, unschooled, unpracticed;
 Happy in this, she is not yet so old
 But she may learn.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 160





 Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words
 That ever blotted paper.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 252





 Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause,
 But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 6





    Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 17





 Some men there are love not a gaping pig;
 Some, that are mad if they behold a cat.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 47





 A harmless necessary cat.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 55





 Bassanio: Do all men kill the things they do not love? 1
 Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill?

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 66

 1 See Oscar Wilde




 What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 69





 The weakest kind of fruit
 Drops earliest to the ground.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 115





 To hold opinion with Pythagoras
 That souls of animals infuse themselves
 Into the trunks of men.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 131





    I never knew so young a body with so old a head.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 163





 The quality of mercy is not strained,
 It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
 Upon the place beneath: it is twice blessed;
 It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
 The throned monarch better than his crown;
 His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
 The attribute to awe and majesty,
 Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings, 1
 But mercy is above this sceptered sway,
 It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
 It is an attribute to God himself,
 And earthly power doth then show likest God's
 When mercy seasons justice. 2  Therefore, Jew,
 Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
 That in the course of justice, none of us
 Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy,
 And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
 The deeds of mercy.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 184

 1 See Measure for Measure
 2 See Milton




 To do a great right, do a little wrong.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 216





 A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 223





 How much more elder art thou than thy looks!

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 251





 Is it so nominated in the bond?

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 260





 'Tis not in the bond.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 263





 For herein Fortune shows herself more kind
 Than is her custom: it is still her use
 To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,
 To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
 An age of poverty.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 268





 I have a daughter;
 Would any of the stock of Barabbas
 Had been her husband rather than a Christian!

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 296





 An upright judge, a learned judge!

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 324





 Now, infidel, I have thee on the hip. 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 334

 1 See Heywood
 2 See The Merchant of Venice




 A Daniel, still say I; a second Daniel!
 I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 341





 You take my house when you do take the prop
 That doth sustain my house; you take my life
 When you do take the means whereby I live.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 376





 He is well paid that is well satisfied.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 416





 Lorenzo: The moon shines bright: in such a night as this . . .
 Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls,
 And sighed his soul toward the Grecian tents,
 Where Cressid lay that night.
 Jessica:In such a night
 Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew,
 And saw the lion's shadow ere himself,
 And ran dismayed away.
 Lorenzo:In such a night
 Stood Dido with a willow in her hand
 Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love
 To come again to Carthage.
 Jessica:In such a night
 Medea gathered the enchanted herbs
 That did renew old Aeson.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 1





 How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
 Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music
 Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
 Become the touches of sweet harmony.
 Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven
 Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
 There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
 But in his motion like an angel sings,
 Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins.
 Such harmony is in immortal souls;
 But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay
 Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 54





 I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 69





 The man that hath no music in himself,
 Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
 Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
 The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
 And his affections dark as Erebus:
 Let no such man be trusted.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 83





 How far that little candle throws his beams!
 So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 90

 1 See Matthew 5:15
 2 See William Bradford




 How many things by season seasoned are
 To their right praise and true perfection!

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 107





 This night methinks is but the daylight sick.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 124





 A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 130





 These blessed candles of the night.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merchant of Venice [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 220





 For new-made honor doth forget men's names.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 187





 Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 213





 Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,
 To make a hazard of new fortunes here.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 70





 For courage mounteth with occasion.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 82





 The hare of whom the proverb goes,
 Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 137





 A woman's will.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 194





 Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since
 Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 288





 He is the half part of a blessed man,
 Left to be finished by such a she;
 And she a fair divided excellence,
 Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 437





 'Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words
 Since I first called my brother's father dad.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 466





 Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 561





 That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling Commodity,
 Commodity, the bias of the world.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 573





 I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
 For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 68





 Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
 And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 128





 The sun's o'ercast with blood: fair day, adieu!
 Which is the side that I must go withal?
 I am with both: each army hath a hand;
 And in their rage, I having hold of both,
 They whirl asunder and dismember me.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 326





 Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 12

 1 See Malory




 Look, who comes here! a grave unto a soul.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 17





 Death, death: O, amiable lovely death! 1

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 25

 1 See Whitman




 Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
 Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
 Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
 Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
 Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 93





 Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 1
 Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 108

 1 See Homer




 When Fortune means to men most good,
 She looks upon them with a threatening eye. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 119

 1 See Publilius Syrus




 A scepter snatched with an unruly hand
 Must be as boisterously maintained as gained;
 And he that stands upon a slippery place
 Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 135





 As quiet as a lamb.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 80





 To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
 To throw a perfume on the violet,
 To smooth the ice, or add another hue
 Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
 To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
 Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 11





 And oftentimes excusing of a fault
 Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 30

 1 See Meurier
 2 See A Midsummer-Night's Dream




 We cannot hold mortality's strong hand.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 82





 There is no sure foundation set on blood,
 No certain life achieved by others' death.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 104





 Make haste; the better foot before.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 170





 Another lean unwashed artificer.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 201





 How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
 Makes ill deeds done!

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 219





 Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 10





 I am amazed, methinks, and lose my way
 Among the thorns and dangers of this world.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 140





 Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,
 And welcome home again discarded faith.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 11





 The day shall not be up so soon as I,
 To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 21





 'Tis strange that death should sing.
 I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
 Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death. 1  2  3  4

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 20

 1 See Plato
 2 See The Merchant of Venice
 3 See Byron
 4 See Anonymous




 Now my soul hath elbow-room.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 28





 I do not ask you much:
 I beg cold comfort. 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 41

 1 See The Tempest
 2 See William Bradford




 This England never did, nor never shall,
 Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 112





 Come the three corners of the world in arms,
 And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,
 If England to itself do rest but true.

 William Shakespeare
 King John [1596-1597],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 116





 So shaken as we are, so wan with care.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 1





 In those holy fields
 Over whose acres walked those blessed feet
 Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed
 For our advantage on the bitter cross.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 24





    Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the
 tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping houses, and the blessed sun
 himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou
 shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 7





    Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 29





    A purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most
 dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 38





    Thy quips and thy quiddities.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 51





    So far as my coin would stretch; and where it would not, I have used my
 credit.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 61





    Old father antick the law.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 69





    I am as melancholy as a gib cat, or a lugged bear.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 82





    I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be
 bought.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 92





    O! thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 101





    Now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the
 wicked.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 105





    'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 116





    There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 154





 I know you all, and will a while uphold
 The unyoked humor of your idleness:
 Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
 Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
 To smother up his beauty from the world,
 That when he please again to be himself,
 Being wanted, he may be more wondered at,
 By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
 Of vapors that did seem to strangle him.
 If all the year were playing holidays,
 To sport would be as tedious as to work.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 217





 You tread upon my patience.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 4





 Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dressed,
 Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new-reaped,
 Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home.
 He was perfumed like a milliner,
 And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
 A pouncet-box, which ever and anon
 He gave his nose and took 't away again.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 33





 And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by.
 He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
 To bring a slovenly unhandsome corpse
 Betwixt the wind and his nobility.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 42





 So pestered with a popinjay.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 50





 God save the mark!

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 56





 And but for these vile guns,
 He would himself have been a soldier.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 63





 To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,
 And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 176





    Or sink or swim.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 194





 O! the blood more stirs
 To rouse a lion than to start a hare!

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 197





 By heaven methinks it were an easy leap
 To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon,
 Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
 Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
 And pluck up drowned honor by the locks.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 201





 Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
 This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 251





    I know a trick worth two of that.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 40





    If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be
 hanged.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 20





    I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 24





    It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest
 forever.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 104





 Falstaff sweats to death
 And lards the lean earth as he walks along.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 119





    Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 11





    I could brain him with his lady's fan.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 26





 Constant you are,
 But yet a woman: and for secrecy,
 No lady closer; for I well believe
 Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know;
 And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 113





    A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 13





    I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me
 some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says
 to his wife, "Fie upon this quiet life! I want work."

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 116





    A plague of all cowards, I say.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 129





    There live not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat
 and grows old.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 146





    You care not who sees your back: call you that backing of your friends? A
 plague upon such backing!

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 168





    I have peppered two of them. . . . I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee
 a lie, spit in my face; call me horse.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 216





    Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plenty as
 blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 267





    Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 285





    What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 328





    A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 370





    I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses' vein.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 429





    That reverend vice, that gray iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity
 in years.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 505





    If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry
 be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be
 hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 524





    Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 534





    Play out the play.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 539





    O, monstrous! but one half-penny-worth of bread to this intolerable deal
 of sack!

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 597





 Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
 In strange eruptions.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 27





 I am not in the roll of common men.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 43





 Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
 Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
 But will they come when you do call for them?

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 53





 I had rather be a kitten and cry mew,
 Than one of these same meter ballad mongers.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 128





 Mincing poetry:
 'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 133





 But in the way of bargain, mark you me,
 I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 138





 A deal of skimble-skamble stuff.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 153





 I understand thy kisses and thou mine,
 And that's a feeling disputation.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 204





    Lady Percy: . . .  Lie still, ye thief, and hear the lady sing in Welsh.
 Hotspur: I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 238





 A good mouth-filling oath.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 258





 They surfeited with honey and began
 To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
 More than a little is by much too much. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 71

 1 See A Midsummer-Night's Dream




 He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
 Heard, not regarded.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 75





 My near'st and dearest enemy. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 123

 1 See Hamlet




 The end of life cancels all bands.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 157





    An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a
 peppercorn, a brewer's horse.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 8





    Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 10





    I make as good use of it [Bardolph's face] as many a man doth of a
 Death's head, or a memento mori.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 32





    I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 187





 The very life-blood of our enterprise.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 28





 Were it good
 To set the exact wealth of all our states
 All at one cast? to set so rich a main
 On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 45





 Baited like eagles having lately bathed . . .
 As full of spirit as the month of May,
 And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 99





 I saw young Harry, with his beaver on.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 104





 To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus
 And witch the world with noble horsemanship.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 109





 Worse than the sun in March
 This praise doth nourish agues.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 111





 Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 134





 The cankers of a calm world and a long peace.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 32





 To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast
 Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 86





 Greatness knows itself.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 74





 I could be well content
 To entertain the lag-end of my life
 With quiet hours.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 23





 Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 28





 Never yet did insurrection want
 Such water-colors to impaint his cause.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 79





    I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 126





    Honor pricks me on. Yea, but how if honor prick me off when I come on?
 how then? Can honor set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief
 of a wound? No. Honor hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honor? a
 word. What is that word, honor? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that
 died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. It is
 insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No.
 Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it: honor is a
 mere scutcheon; and so ends my catechism.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 131





 Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes;
 For treason is but trusted like the fox.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 8





 Let me tell the world.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 65





 The time of life is short;
 To spend that shortness basely were too long.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 81





 Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 65





 But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;
 And time, that takes survey of all the world,
 Must have a stop. O! I could prophesy,
 But that the earthy and cold hand of death
 Lies on my tongue.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 81





 This earth, that bears thee dead,
 Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 92





 Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,
 But not remembered in thy epitaph!

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 100





 I could have better spared a better man.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 104





    The better part of valor is discretion.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 120





 Full bravely hast thou fleshed
 Thy maiden sword.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 132





    Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 148





    I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part I [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 168





 Rumor is a pipe
 Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures,
 And of so easy and so plain a stop
 That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
 The still-discordant wavering multitude, 1  2  3  4
 Can play upon it.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Induction, l. 15

 1 See Horace
 2 See Machiavelli
 3 See Coriolanus
 4 See Pope




 Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
 So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,
 Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,
 And would have told him half his Troy was burned.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 70





 Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
 Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
 Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
 Remembered knolling a departing friend. 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 100

 1 See Sophocles
 2 See Antony and Cleopatra




    I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 10

 1 See Samuel Foote




    A rascally yea-forsooth knave.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 40





    You lie in your throat.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 97





    Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of
 age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 112





    It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am
 troubled withal.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 139





    I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 145





    We that are in the vaward of our youth.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 201





    Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a
 decreasing leg, an increasing belly?

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 206





    Every part about you blasted with antiquity.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 210





    For my voice, I have lost it with hollaing and singing of anthems.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 215





    It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good
 thing, to make it too common.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 244





    I were better to be eaten to death with rust than to be scoured to
 nothing with perpetual motion.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 249





    I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only
 lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 267

 1 See Rabelais




 Who lined himself with hope,
 Eating the air on promise of supply.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 27





 A habitation giddy and unsure
 Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 89





 Past and to come seem best; things present worst.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 108





    A poor lone woman.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 37





    Away, you scullion! you rampallian! you fustilarian! I'll tickle your
 catastrophe.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 67





    He hath eaten me out of house and home.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 82





    Let the end try the man.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 52





    Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in
 the clouds and mock us.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 155





 He was indeed the glass
 Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 21





 And let the welkin roar.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 181





    Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 283





 O sleep! O gentle sleep!
 Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
 That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
 And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 5





 With all appliances and means to boot.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 29





 Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 31





 O God! that one might read the book of fate.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 45





 There is a history in all men's lives.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 80





    Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 41





    Most forcible Feeble.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 181





    We have heard the chimes at midnight.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 231





    A man can die but once; we owe God a death.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 253





 We see which way the stream of time doth run
 And are enforced from our most quiet sphere
 By the rough torrent of occasion.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 70





 We ready are to try our fortunes
 To the last man.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 43





    I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, "I came, saw, and
 overcame." 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 44

 1 See Julius Caesar




 O polished perturbation! golden care!
 That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide
 To many a watchful night!

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 22





 See, sons, what things you are!
 How quickly nature falls into revolt
 When gold becomes her object!

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 63





 Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 91





 Before thy hour be ripe. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 95

 1 See Blake




 Commit
 The oldest sins the newest kind of ways.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 124





 His cares are now all ended.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 3





 This is the English, not the Turkish court;
 Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,
 But Harry Harry.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 47





 I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;
 How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 52





    Master Shallow. I owe you a thousand pound.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fourth, Part II
 [1597-1598],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 78





 O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
 The brightest heaven of invention!

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Chorus,l. 1





 Or may we cram
 Within this wooden O the very casques
 That did affright the air at Agincourt?

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Chorus,l. 12





 Consideration like an angel came,
 And whipped the offending Adam out of him. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 28

 1 See The Book of Common Prayer, English




 Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,
 You would say it hath been all in all his study.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 41





 Turn him to any cause of policy,
 The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
 Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks,
 The air, a chartered libertine, is still.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 45





 Therefore doth heaven divide
 The state of man in divers functions,
 Setting endeavor in continual motion;
 To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,
 Obedience: for so work the honeybees,
 Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
 The act of order to a peopled kingdom.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 183





 The singing masons building roofs of gold.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 198





 Many things, having full reference
 To one consent, may work contrariously;
 As many arrows, loosed several ways,
 Fly to one mark; as many ways meet in one town;
 As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea;
 As many lines close in the dial's center;
 So may a thousand actions, once afoot,
 End in one purpose, and be all well borne
 Without defeat.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 205





 'Tis ever common
 That men are merriest when they are from home.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 271





 Now all the youth of England are on fire,
 And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: Chorus, Line: 1





 O England! model to thy inward greatness,
 Like little body with a mighty heart,
 What mightst thou do, that honor would thee do,
 Were all thy children kind and natural!

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: Chorus, Line: 16





 That's the humor of it.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 63





    He's [Falstaff's] in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom.
 A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a'
 parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide:
 for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile
 upon his fingers' ends, I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as
 sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 11





    As cold as any stone.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 26





 Trust none;
 For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
 And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 53





 Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
 Or close the wall up with our English dead!
 In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
 As modest stillness and humility:
 But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
 Then imitate the action of the tiger;
 Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
 Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage;
 Then lend the eye a terrible aspect.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 1





 And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 21





 I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
 Straining upon the start. The game's afoot: 1
 Follow your spirit; and upon this charge
 Cry "God for Harry! England and Saint George!"

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 31

 1 See Conan Doyle




    I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 14





    Men of few words are the best men.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 40





    He will maintain his argument as well as any military man in the world.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 89





    I know the disciplines of wars.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 156





 I thought upon one pair of English legs
 Did march three Frenchmen.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: vi, Line: 161





 We are in God's hand.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: vi, Line: 181





    That island of England breeds very valiant creatures: their mastiffs are
 of unmatchable courage.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: vii, Line: 155





    Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like
 wolves and fight like devils.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: vii, Line: 166





 The hum of either army stilly sounds,
 That the fixed sentinels almost receive
 The secret whispers of each other's watch:
 Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames
 Each battle sees the other's umbered face:
 Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
 Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents
 The armorers, accomplishing the knights,
 With busy hammers closing rivets up,
 Give dreadful note of preparation.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: Chorus, Line: 5





 A little touch of Harry in the night.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: Chorus, Line: 47





 There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
 Would men observingly distill it out.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 4





    When blood is their argument.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 151





    Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 189





 What infinite heart's ease
 Must kings neglect that private men enjoy!
 And what have kings that privates have not too,
 Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
 And what art thou, thou idol ceremony?
 What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more
 Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
 What are thy rents? what are thy comingsin?
 O ceremony! show me but thy worth.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 256





 'Tis not the balm, the scepter and the ball,
 The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
 The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,
 The farced title running 'fore the king,
 The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp
 That beats upon the high shore of this world,
 No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,
 Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
 Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,
 Who with a body filled and vacant mind
 Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 280





 O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts;
 Possess them not with fear; take from them now
 The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers
 Pluck their hearts from them.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 309





 But if it be a sin to covet honor,
 I am the most offending soul alive.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 28





 This day is called the feast of Crispian:
 He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
 Will stand a-tiptoe when this day is named.
 And rouse him at the name of Crispian.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 40





 We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
 For he today that sheds his blood with me
 Shall be my brother.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 60





    The saying is true, "The empty vessel makes the greatest sound."

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 72





    There is occasions and causes why and wherefore 1  in all things.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 3

 1 See The Comedy of Errors




    By this leek, I will most horribly revenge. I eat and eat, I swear.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 49





    All hell shall stir for this.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 72





 The naked, poor, and mangled Peace,
 Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 34





 Grow like savages-as soldiers will,
 That nothing do but meditate on blood.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 59





    For these fellows of infinite tongue, that can rime themselves into
 ladies' favors, they do always reason themselves out again.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 162





    My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more
 spoil upon my face.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 246





    O Kate! nice customs curtsy to great kings.

 William Shakespeare
 King Henry the Fifth [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 291





    He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to
 tell you how.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 15





    How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 28





    A very valiant trencher-man.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 52





    There's a skirmish of wit between them.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 64





    He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 76





    I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 79





    What! my dear Lady Disdain, are you yet living?

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 123





    Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again?

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 209





    In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 271





    Benedick the married man.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 278





    I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie
 in the woollen.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 31





    As merry as the day is long.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 52





    Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered with a piece of valiant
 dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl?

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 64





    I have a good eye, uncle: I can see a church by daylight.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 86





    Speak low, if you speak love.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 104





 Friendship is constant in all other things
 Save in the office and affairs of love:
 Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
 Let every eye negotiate for itself
 And trust no agent. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 184

 1 See Longfellow




    She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible
 as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the
 north star.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 257





    Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I
 could say how much.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 319





    It keeps on the windy side of care.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 328





    There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 351





    I will tell you my drift.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 406





    He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 19





 Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.
 Men were deceivers ever;
 One foot in sea, and one on shore;
 To one thing constant never.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 65





    Sits the wind in that corner? 1

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 108

 1 See Malory




    Bait the hook well: this fish will bite.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 121





    Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man
 from the career of his humor? No; the world must be peopled. When I said I
 would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 260





    From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 9





    He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for
 what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 12





    Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 28





    Are you good men and true?

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 1





    To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read
 comes by nature.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 14





    If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the
 men you took them for.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 49





    They that touch pitch will be defiled.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 61





    The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 147





    A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in,
 the wit is out.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 36





    O! what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what
 they do!

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 19





 O! what authority and show of truth
 Can cunning sin cover itself withal.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 35





 For it so falls out
 That what we have we prize not to the worth
 Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
 Why, then we rack the value, then we find
 The virtue that possession would not show us
 Whiles it was ours.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 219





    Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false
 knaves, and it will go near to be thought so shortly.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 23





    Flat burglary as ever was committed.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 54





    Thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 60





    O that he were here to write me down an ass!

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 80





 Patch griefs with proverbs.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 17





 Charm ache with air, and agony with words.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 26





 For there was never yet philosopher
 That could endure the toothache patiently.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 35





 Some of us will smart for it.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 108





    What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill
 care.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 135





    I was not born under a riming planet.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 40





    The trumpet of his own virtues.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 91





 Done to death by slanderous tongues.

 William Shakespeare
 Much Ado About Nothing [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 3





    Fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 126





    Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 59





    The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 97





    Well said: that was laid on with a trowel.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 113





    Your heart's desires be with you!

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 214





 One out of suits with fortune.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 263





 My pride fell with my fortunes.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 269





 Hereafter, in a better world than this,
 I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 301





 Heavenly Rosalind!

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 306





    O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 12





 Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 113





 We'll have a swashing and a martial outside,
 As many other mannish cowards have.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 123





 Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
 Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
 More free from peril than the envious court?

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 2





 Sweet are the uses of adversity,
 Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
 Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
 And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
 Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
 Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 1  2  3

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 12

 1 See St. Bernard
 2 See As You Like It
 3 See Wordsworth




 The big round tears
 Coursed one another down his innocent nose
 In piteous chase.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 38





 "Poor deer," quoth he, "thou mak'st a testament
 As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more
 To that which had too much."

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 47





 Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 55





 And He that doth the ravens feed,
 Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
 Be comfort to my age!

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 43





 Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;
 For in my youth I never did apply
 Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 47





 Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
 Frosty, but kindly.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 52





 Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
 Where none will sweat but for promotion.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 59





    Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I: when I was at home, I was in a
 better place: but travelers must be content.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 16





 If you remember'st not the slightest folly
 That ever love did make thee run into,
 Thou hast not loved.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 34





    We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 53





    Thou speakest wiser than thou art ware of.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 57





    I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit, till I break my shins against it.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 59





 Under the greenwood tree
 Who loves to lie with me,
 And turn his merry note
 Unto the sweet bird's throat,
 Come hither, come hither, come hither:
 Here shall he see
 No enemy
 But winter and rough weather.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 1





    I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 12





 Who doth ambition shun,
 And loves to live i' the sun,
 Seeking the food he eats,
 And pleased with what he gets.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 38





 I met a fool i' the forest,
 A motley fool.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 12





 And then he drew a dial from his poke,
 And looking on it with lack-luster eye,
 Says, very wisely, "It is ten o'clock;
 Thus may we see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 20





 And so, from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
 And then from hour to hour we rot and rot;
 And thereby hangs a tale.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 26





 My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,
 That fools should be so deep-contemplative,
 And I did laugh sans intermission
 An hour by his dial.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 30





 Motley's the only wear.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 34





 If ladies be but young and fair,
 They have the gift to know it.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 37





 I must have liberty
 Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
 To blow on whom I please.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 47





 The "why" is plain as way to parish church.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 52





 But whate'er you are
 That in this desert inaccessible,
 Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
 Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time;
 If ever you have looked on better days,
 If ever been where bells have knolled to church,
 If ever sat at any good man's feast,
 If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear,
 And know what 'tis to pity, and be pitied,
 Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 109





 True is it that we have seen better days.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 120





 Oppressed with two weak evils, age and hunger.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 132





 All the world's a stage,
 And all the men and women merely players:
 They have their exits and their entrances;
 And one man in his time plays many parts,
 His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
 Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
 And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel,
 And shining morning face, creeping like snail
 Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
 Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad
 Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
 Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
 Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
 Seeking the bubble reputation
 Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
 In fair round belly with good capon lined,
 With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
 Full of wise saws and modern instances;
 And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
 Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
 With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
 His youthful hose well saved, a world too wide
 For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
 Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
 And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
 That ends this strange eventful history,
 Is second childishness, and mere oblivion,
 Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 139





 Blow, blow, thou winter wind!
 Thou art not so unkind
 As man's ingratitude.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 174





 These trees shall be my books. 1  2  3

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 5

 1 See St. Bernard
 2 See As You Like It
 3 See Wordsworth




 The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 10





    It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 21





    He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 25





    I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate,
 envy no man's happiness, glad  of other men's good, content with my harm.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 78





 From the east to western Ind,
 No jewel is like Rosalind.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 94





    This is the very false gallop of verses.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 120





    Let us make an honorable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet
 with scrip and scrippage.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 170





    O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful, wonderful! and yet again
 wonderful! and after that out of all whooping.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 202





    Answer me in one word.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 238





    Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 265





    I do desire we may be better strangers.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 276





    Jacques: What stature is she of?
 Orlando: Just as high as my heart.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 286





    Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time
 ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he
 stands still withal.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 328





    Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 377





    Everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 405





    Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 16





 The wounds invisible
 That love's keen arrows make.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 30





 Down on your knees,
 And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 57





 I am falser than vows made in wine.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 73





    It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted
 from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which,
 by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 16





    I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 28





    Farewell, Monsieur Traveler: look you lisp and wear strange suits,
 disable all the benefits of your own country, be out of love with your
 nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are; or I
 will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 35





    I'll warrant him heart-whole.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 51





    Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers
 lacking-God warn us!-matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 77





    Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for
 love.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 110





    Forever and a day.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 151





    Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when
 they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 153





    My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 219





 The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
 Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 17





    Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 103





    "So so" is good, very good, very excellent good: and yet it is not; it is
 but so so.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 30





    The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a
 fool.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 35





    No sooner met, but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no
 sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another
 the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 37





    But, O! how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another
 man's eyes!

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 48





 It was a lover and his lass,
 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
 That o'er the green corn-field did pass,
 In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
 When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
 Sweet lovers love the spring.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 18





    Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called
 fools.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 36





    An ill-favored thing, sir, but mine own.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 60





    Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as your pearl in
 your foul oyster.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 62





    "The retort courteous." . . . "the quip modest." . . . "the reply
 churlish." . . . "the reproof valiant" . . . "the countercheck quarrelsome."
 . . . "the lie circumstantial," and "the lie direct."

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 75





    Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if."

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 108





    He uses his folly like a stalking horse, and under the presentation of
 that he shoots his wit.

 William Shakespeare
 As You Like It [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 112





 If music be the food of love, play on;
 Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
 The appetite may sicken, and so die.
 That strain again! it had a dying fall:
 O! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
 That breathes upon a bank of violets,
 Stealing and giving odor!

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 1





 O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
 That, notwithstanding thy capacity
 Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
 Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
 But falls into abatement and low price,
 Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy,
 That it alone is high fantastical.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 9





 When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 61





    I am sure care's an enemy to life.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 2





    Let them hang themselves in their own straps.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 13





    I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 92





    Wherefore are these things hid?

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 135





    Is it a world to hide virtues in?

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 142





    God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use
 their talents.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 14





    One draught above heat makes him a fool, the second mads him, and a third
 drowns him.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 139





 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
 Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on:
 Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive,
 If you will lead these graces to the grave
 And leave the world no copy.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 259





 Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
 And call upon my soul within the house.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 289





 Holla your name to the reverberate hills,
 And make the babbling gossip of the air
 Cry out, "Olivia!"

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 293





 Farewell, fair cruelty.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 309





 O mistress mine! where are you roaming?

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 42





 Journeys end in lovers meeting,
 Every wise man's son doth know.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 46





 What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
 Present mirth hath present laughter.
 What's to come is still unsure:
 In delay there lies no plenty;
 Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
 Youth's a stuff will not endure.


 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 50





    He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 91





    Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time, in you? 1

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 100

 1 See Acts 10:34




    Sir Toby: Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no
 more cakes and ale?
 Clown: Yes, by Saint Anne; and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 124





    My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 184





 These most brisk and giddy-paced times.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 6





 If ever thou shalt love,
 In the sweet pangs of it remember me;
 For such as I am all true lovers are:
 Unstaid and skittish in all motions else
 Save in the constant image of the creature
 That is beloved.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 15





 Let still the woman take
 An elder than herself, so wears she to him,
 So sways she level in her husband's heart:
 For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
 Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
 More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,
 Than women's are.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 29





 Then, let thy love be younger than thyself,
 Or thy affection cannot hold the bent;
 For women are as roses, whose fair flower
 Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 36





 The spinsters and the knitters in the sun,
 And the free maids that weave their thread with bones,
 Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,
 And dallies with the innocence of love,
 Like the old age.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 44





 Come away, come away, death,
 And in sad cypress let me be laid;
 Fly away, fly away, breath;
 I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 51





 Duke:And what's her history?
 Viola: A blank, my lord. She never told her love,
 But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
 Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
 And with a green and yellow melancholy,
 She sat like Patience on a monument,
 Smiling at grief.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 112





 I am all the daughters of my father's house,
 And all the brothers too.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 122





    Here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 25





 I may command where I adore.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 116





    Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness,
 and some have greatness thrust upon them.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 159





    Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever
 cross-gartered.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 168





    Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 44





 This fellow's wise enough to play the fool,
 And to do that well craves a kind of wit.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 68





 Music from the spheres.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 122





 How apt the poor are to be proud.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 141





 Then westward-ho!

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 148





 O! what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
 In the contempt and anger of his lip.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 159





 Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 170





    You will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 30





    Let there be gall enough in thy ink.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 54





    Laugh yourselves into stitches.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 75





    I think we do know the sweet Roman hand.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 31





    This is very midsummer madness.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 62





    More matter for a May morning.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 158





    He's a very devil.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 304





 Out of my lean and low ability
 I'll lend you something.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 380





 I hate ingratitude more in a man
 Than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness,
 Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
 Inhabits our frail blood.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 390





    As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily
 said to a niece of King Gorboduc, "That that is, is."

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 14





    Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 388





 When that I was and a little tiny boy,
 With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;
 A foolish thing was but a toy,
 For the rain it raineth every day.

 William Shakespeare
 Twelfth-Night [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 404





    A surgeon to old shoes.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 26





    As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 27





 Have you not made a universal shout,
 That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,
 To hear the replication of your sounds
 Made in her concave shores?

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 48





 Beware the ides of March. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 18

 1 See Julius Caesar




 Set honor in one eye and death i' the other,
 And I will look on both indifferently.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 86





 Well, honor is the subject of my story.
 I cannot tell what you and other men
 Think of this life; but, for my single self,
 I had as lief not to be as live to be
 In awe of such a thing as I myself.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 92





 Stemming it with hearts of controversy.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 109





 Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
 Like a Colossus; and we petty men
 Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
 To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
 Men at some time are masters of their fates: 1  2  3  4  5
 The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
 But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 134

 1 See Sallust
 2 See Bacon
 3 See Tennyson
 4 See Henley
 5 See Nehru




 Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
 That he is grown so great?

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 148





 Let me have men about me that are fat;
 Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights.
 Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; 1
 He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 191

 1 See Julius Caesar




 He reads much;
 He is a great observer, and he looks
 Quite through the deeds of men.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 200





 Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
 As if he mocked himself, and scorned his spirit
 That could be moved to smile at anything.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 204





 But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 288





 Yesterday the bird of night did sit,
 Even at noonday, upon the marketplace,
 Hooting and shrieking.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 26





 So every bondman in his own hand bears
 The power to cancel his captivity.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 101





 O! he sits high in all the people's hearts:
 And that which would appear offense in us,
 His countenance, like richest alchemy,
 Will change to virtue and to worthiness.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 157





 The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins
 Remorse from power.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 18





 'Tis a common proof,
 That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
 Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
 But when he once attains the upmost round,
 He then unto the ladder turns his back,
 Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
 By which he did ascend.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 21





 Therefore think him as a serpent's egg
 Which, hatched, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,
 And kill him in the shell.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 32





 Between the acting of a dreadful thing
 And the first motion, all the interim is
 Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream:
 The genius and the mortal instruments
 Are then in council; and the state of man,
 Like to a little kingdom, suffers then
 The nature of an insurrection.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 63





 O conspiracy!
 Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,
 When evils are most free?

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 77





 Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
 Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 173





 But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
 He says he does, being then most flattered.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 207





 Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 230





 You are my true and honorable wife,
 As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
 That visit my sad heart.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 288





 Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
 Being so fathered and so husbanded?

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 296





 When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
 The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 30





 Cowards die many times before their deaths;
 The valiant never taste of death but once.
 Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
 It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
 Seeing that death, a necessary end,
 Will come when it will come.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 32





 Antony, that revels long o' nights.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 116





 How hard it is for women to keep counsel!

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 9





 But I am constant as the northern star,
 Of whose true-fixed and resting quality
 There is no fellow in the firmament.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 60





 Speak, hands, for me!

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 76





 Et tu, Brute! 1

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 77

 1 See Julius Caesar




 Some to the common pulpits, and cry out,
 "Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement."

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 79





 How many ages hence
 Shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er,
 In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 111





 O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?
 Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,
 Shrunk to this little measure?

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 148





 The choice and master spirits of this age.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 163





 Though last, not least in love. 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 189

 1 See Spenser
 2 See King Lear




 O! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
 That I am meek and gentle with these butchers;
 Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
 That ever lived in the tide of times.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 254





 Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 273





    Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent, that
 you may hear.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 13





    Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 22





    As he was valiant, I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 27





    If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 36





 Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
 I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
 The evil that men do lives after them,
 The good is oft interred with their bones. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 79

 1 See Euripides




 For Brutus is an honorable man;
 So are they all, all honorable men.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 88





 When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;
 Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 97





 O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
 And men have lost their reason.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 110





 But yesterday the word of Caesar might
 Have stood against the world; now lies he there,
 And none so poor to do him reverence.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 124





 If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 174





 See what a rent the envious Casca made.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 180





 This was the most unkindest cut of all.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 188





 Great Caesar fell.
 O! what a fall was there, my countrymen;
 Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
 Whilst bloody treason flourished over us.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 194





 What private griefs they have, alas! I know not.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 217





 I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:
 I am no orator, as Brutus is;
 But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 220





 For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
 Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
 To stir men's blood: I only speak right on.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 225





 Put a tongue
 In every wound of Caesar, that should move
 The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 232





 When love begins to sicken and decay,
 It useth an enforced ceremony.
 There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 20





 An itching palm.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 10





 I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
 Than such a Roman.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 27





 I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,
 When you are waspish.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 49





 There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;
 For I am armed so strong in honesty
 That they pass by me as the idle wind,
 Which I respect not.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 66





 A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,
 But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 85





 All his faults observed,
 Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 96





 There is a tide in the affairs of men,
 Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
 Omitted, all the voyage of their life
 Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 217





 We must take the current when it serves,
 Or lose our ventures.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 222





 The deep of night is crept upon our talk,
 And nature must obey necessity. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 225

 1 See Leonardo da Vinci




 But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
 And leave them honeyless.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 34





 Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius!
 If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
 If not, why then, this parting was well made.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 117





 O! that a man might know
 The end of this day's business, ere it come.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 123





 O Julius Caesar! thou art mighty yet!
 Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords
 In our own proper entrails.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 94





 The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 99





 This was the noblest Roman of them all.

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 68





 His life was gentle, and the elements
 So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
 And say to all the world, "This was a man!" 1

 William Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar [1598-1600],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 73

 1 See Hamlet




 For this relief much thanks; 'tis bitter cold,
 And I am sick at heart.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 8





 Not a mouse stirring. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 10

 1 See Clement Clarke Moore




 Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 42





 But in the gross and scope of my opinion,
 This bodes some strange eruption to our state.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 68





 Whose sore task
 Does not divide the Sunday from the week.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 75





 This sweaty haste
 Doth make the night joint-laborer with the day.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 77





 In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
 A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
 The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
 Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 113





 The moist star
 Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands
 Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 118





 And then it started like a guilty thing
 Upon a fearful summons.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 148





 The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 150





 Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
 The extravagant and erring spirit hies
 To his confine.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 153





 It faded on the crowing of the cock.
 Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
 Wherein our Savior's birth is celebrated,
 The bird of dawning singeth all night long;
 And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad;
 The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
 No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
 So hallowed and so gracious is the time.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 157





 But, look, the morn in russet mantle clad,
 Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 166





 The memory be green. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 2

 1 See Thomas Moore




 With one auspicious and one dropping eye,
 With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
 In equal scale weighing delight and dole.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 11





 So much for him.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 25





 A little more than kin, and less than kind.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 65





 Thou know'st 'tis common; all that live must die,
 Passing through nature to eternity.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 72





 Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not "seems."
 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
 Nor customary suits of solemn black.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 76





 But I have that within which passeth show;
 These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 85





 To persever
 In obstinate condolement is a course
 Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief:
 It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,
 A heart unfortified, a mind impatient.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 92





 O! that this too too solid flesh would melt,
 Thaw and resolve itself into a dew;
 Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
 His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!
 How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
 Seem to me all the uses of this world.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 129





 Things rank and gross in nature
 Possess it merely. That it should come to this!

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 136





 So excellent a king; that was, to this,
 Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
 That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
 Visit her face too roughly.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 139





 Why, she would hang on him,
 As if increase of appetite had grown
 By what it fed on.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 143





 Frailty, thy name is woman!

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 146





 Like Niobe, all tears.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 149





 A beast, that wants discourse of reason.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 150





 It is not nor it cannot come to good.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 158





 A truant disposition.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 169





 Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats
 Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
 Would I had met my dearest foe 1  in heaven
 Ere I had ever seen that day.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 180

 1 See Henry IV, Part I




 In my mind's eye, Horatio.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 185





 He was a man, take him for all in all, 1
 I shall not look upon his like again.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 187

 1 See Julius Caesar




 Season your admiration for a while.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 192





 In the dead vast and middle of the night.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 198





 Armed at points exactly, cap-a-pe.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 200





 Distilled
 Almost to jelly with the act of fear.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 204





 A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 231





 While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 237





 Hamlet: His beard was grizzled, no?
 Horatio: It was, as I have seen it in his life,
 A sable silvered.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 239





 Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 249





 All is not well;
 I doubt some foul play.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 254





 Foul deeds will rise,
 Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 256





 The chariest maid is prodigal enough
 If she unmask her beauty to the moon;
 Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes;
 The canker galls the infants of the spring
 Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,
 And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
 Contagious blastments are most imminent.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 36





 Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
 Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
 Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
 Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. 1  2
 And recks not his own rede.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 47

 1 See Bion
 2 See Macbeth




 Give thy thoughts no tongue.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 59





 Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar;
 Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
 Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 61





 Beware
 Of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in,
 Bear 't that th' opposed may beware of thee.
 Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
 Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
 Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
 But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; 1
 For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 65

 1 See Samuel Wesley




 Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;
 For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
 And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
 This above all: to thine own self be true,
 And it must follow, as the night the day,
 Thou canst not then be false to any man. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 75

 1 See Bacon




 'Tis in my memory locked,
 And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 85





 You speak like a green girl,
 Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 101





 Springes to catch woodcocks.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 115





 When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
 Lends the tongue vows.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 116





 Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 121





 The air bites shrewdly.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 1





 But to my mind-though I am native here
 And to the manner born-it is a custom
 More honored in the breach than the observance.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 14





 Angels and ministers of grace defend us!

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 39





 Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
 Thou com'st in such a questionable shape
 That I will speak to thee.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 42





 What may this mean,
 That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel
 Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,
 Making night hideous; and we fools of nature
 So horridly to shake our disposition
 With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 51





 I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 65





 The dreadful summit of the cliff
 That beetles o'er his base into the sea.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 70





 My fate cries out,
 And makes each petty artery in this body
 As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 81





 Unhand me, gentlemen,
 By heaven! I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 84





 Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 90





 I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
 Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
 Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
 Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
 And each particular hair to stand an end,
 Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 15





 And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed
 That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 32





 O my prophetic soul!
 My uncle!

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 40





 O Hamlet! what a falling-off was there.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 47





 But virtue, as it never will be moved,
 Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,
 So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,
 Will sate itself in a celestial bed,
 And prey on garbage.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 53





 In the porches of mine ears.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 63





 Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
 Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled,
 No reckoning made, but sent to my account
 With all my imperfections on my head. 1  2  3  4  5  6

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 76

 1 See Homer
 2 See Horace
 3 See Chaucer
 4 See Milton
 5 See Scott
 6 See Byron




 Leave her to heaven,
 And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
 To prick and sting her.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 86





 The glowworm shows the matin to be near,
 And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 89





 While memory holds a seat
 In this distracted globe. Remember thee!
 Yea, from the table of my memory
 I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 96





 Within the book and volume of my brain.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 103





 O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
 My tables-meet it is I set it down,
 That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;
 At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 106





 There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark,
 But he's an arrant knave.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 123





 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
 Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 166





 To put an antic disposition on.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 172





 Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 182





 The time is out of joint; O cursed spite,
 That ever I was born to set it right!

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 188





 Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth;
 And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
 With windlasses and with assays of bias,
 By indirections find directions out.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 63





 Ungartered, and down-gyved to his ankle.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 80





 This is the very ecstasy of love.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 102





 Brevity is the soul of wit.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 90





 More matter, with less art.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 95





 That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity;
 And pity 'tis 'tis true.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 97





 Find out the cause of this effect,
 Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
 For this effect defective comes by cause.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 101





 Doubt thou the stars are fire;
 Doubt that the sun doth move;
 Doubt truth to be a liar;
 But never doubt I love.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 115





    Polonius: Do you know me, my lord?
 Hamlet: Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 173





    To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten
 thousand.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 179





    Hamlet: For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing
 carrion-Have you a daughter?
 Polonius: I have, my lord.
 Hamlet: Let her not walk i' the sun.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 183





    Still harping on my daughter.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 190





    Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
 Hamlet: Words, words, words.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 195





    They have a plentiful lack of wit.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 204





    Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 211





    These tedious old fools!

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 227





    The indifferent children of the earth.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 235





    Happy in that we are not over happy.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 236





    There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 259





    O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of
 infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 263





    Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 286





    This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most
 excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this
 majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to
 me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is
 a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how
 express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like
 a god!

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 317





    And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me;
 no, nor woman neither.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 328





    There is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it
 out.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 392





    I am but mad north-northwest: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk
 from a handsaw.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 405





    They say an old man is twice a child. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 413

 1 See Aristophanes




 One fair daughter and no more,
 The which he loved passing well.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 435





    Come, give us a taste of your quality.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 460





    The play, I remember, pleased not the million; 'twas caviare to the
 general.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 465





    They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time: after your death
 you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 555





    Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? 1

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 561

 1 See Montaigne




 O! what a rogue and peasant slave am I.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 584





 What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba,
 That he should weep for her?

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 593





 Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?
 Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face?

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 607





 But I am pigeon-livered, and lack gall
 To make oppression bitter.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 613





 The play's the thing
 Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 641





 With devotion's visage
 And pious action we do sugar o'er
 The devil himself.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 47





 To be, or not to be: that is the question:
 Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
 The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
 Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
 And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
 No more; and, by a sleep to say we end
 The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
 That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
 Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep;
 To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
 For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
 When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
 Must give us pause. There's the respect
 That makes calamity of so long life;
 For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
 The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
 The pangs of disprized love, the law's delay.
 The insolence of office, and the spurns
 That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
 When he himself might his quietus make
 With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
 To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
 But that the dread of something after death,
 The undiscovered country from whose bourn
 No traveler returns, 1  2  puzzles the will,
 And makes us rather bear those ills we have
 Than fly to others that we know not of?
 Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; 3
 And thus the native hue of resolution
 Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
 And enterprises of great pith and moment
 With this regard their currents turn awry,
 And lose the name of action.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 56

 1 See The Song of the Harper
 2 See Catullus
 3 See Wilde




 Nymph, in thy orisons
 Be all my sins remembered.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 89





 To the noble mind
 Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 100





    Get thee to a nunnery.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 124





    What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth? We
 are arrant knaves, all.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 128





    Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 142





    I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one
 face, and you make yourselves another.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 150





 O! what a noble mind is here o'erthrown:
 The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 159





 The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
 The observed of all observers!

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 162





 Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
 Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 166





 O! woe is me,
 To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 169





    Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on
 the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief
 the towncrier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your
 hand, thus; but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and-as I
 may say-whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that
 may give it smoothness. O! it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
 periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the
 ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but
 inexplicable dumb-shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for
 o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 1





    Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special
 observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 20





    To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own
 feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form
 and pressure.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 25





    I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them
 well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 38





 No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
 And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
 Where thrift may follow fawning.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 65





 A man that fortune's buffets and rewards
 Hast ta'en with equal thanks.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 72





 They are not a pipe for fortune's finger
 To sound what stop she please. Give me that man
 That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
 In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,
 As I do thee. Something too much of this.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 75





 My imaginations are as foul
 As Vulcan's stithy.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 88





    The chameleon's dish: I eat the air, promise-crammed; you cannot feed
 capons so.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 98





    Nav, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 138





    There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 141





    Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 148





    Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord.
 Hamlet: As woman's love.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 165





 Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;
 When little fears grow great, great love grows there.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 183





    Wormwood, wormwood. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 193

 1 See Lamentations of Jeremiah 3:19




 The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 242





    Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 256





 Why, let the stricken deer go weep, 1
 The hart ungalled play;
 For some must watch, while some must sleep:
 So runs the world away.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 287

 1 See Cowper




    You would pluck out the heart of my mystery.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 389





    Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 393





    Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
 Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
 Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
 Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
 Hamlet: Or like a whale?
 Polonius: Very like a whale. 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 400

 1 See Aristophanes
 2 See Antony and Cleopatra




    They fool me to the top of my bent.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 408





    By and by is easily said.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 411





 'Tis now the very witching time of night,
 When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
 Contagion to this world.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 413





 I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 421





 O! my offense is rank, it smells to heaven;
 It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't,
 A brother's murder!

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 36





 Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;
 And now I'll do 't: and so he goes to heaven;
 And so I am revenged.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 73





 With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 81





 My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
 Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 97





    How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 23





 False as dicers' oaths.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 45





 A rhapsody of words.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 48





 See, what a grace was seated on this brow;
 Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself,
 An eye like Mars, to threaten and command,
 A station like the herald Mercury
 New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill.
 A combination and a form indeed,
 Where every god did seem to set his seal,
 To give the world assurance of a man.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 55





 At your age
 The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 68





 O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,
 If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,
 To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,
 And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame
 When the compulsive ardor gives the charge,
 Since frost itself as actively doth burn,
 And reason panders will.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 82





 A king of shreds and patches. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 102

 1 See W. S. Gilbert




 Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 145





 Confess yourself to heaven;
 Repent what's past; avoid what is to come.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 149





 For in the fatness of these pursy times
 Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 153





 Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 160





 Refrain tonight;
 And that shall lend a kind of easiness
 To the next abstinence: the next more easy;
 For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 165





 I must be cruel, only to be kind.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 178





 For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
 Hoist with his own petar.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 206





 Diseases desperate grown
 By desperate appliance are relieved,
 Or not at all. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 9

 1 See Hippocrates




    A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish
 that hath fed of that worm.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 29





 We go to gain a little patch of ground,
 That hath in it no profit but the name.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 18





 How all occasions do inform against me,
 And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
 If his chief good and market of his time
 Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
 Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
 Looking before and after, gave us not
 That capability and godlike reason
 To fust in us unused.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 32





 Some craven scruple
 Of thinking too precisely on the event.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 40





 Rightly to be great
 Is not to stir without great argument,
 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
 When honor's at the stake.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 53





 So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
 It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 19





 How should I your true love know
 From another one?
 By his cockle hat and staff,
 And his sandal shoon.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 23





 He is dead and gone, lady,
 He is dead and gone;
 At his head a grass-green turf,
 At his heels a stone.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 29





    We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 43





    Come, my coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; good night,
 good night.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 72





 When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
 But in battalions.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 78





 We have done but greenly,
 In hugger-mugger to inter him.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 84





 There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
 That treason can but peep to what it would. 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 123

 1 See Montaigne
 2 See Tennyson




    There's rosemary, that's for remembrance . . . and there is pansies,
 that's for thoughts.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 174





    O! you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would
 give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 181





 A very riband in the cap of youth.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 77





 Nature her custom holds,
 Let shame say what it will.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 188





    There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers;
 they hold up Adam's profession. 1  2  3  4

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 32

 1 See Genesis 2:8
 2 See Bacon
 3 See King Henry VI, Part II
 4 See Kipling




    Cudgel thy brains no more about it.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 61





    Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at
 grave-making?

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 71





    Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 73





    A politician . . . one that would circumvent God.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 84





    Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now,
 his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 104





    One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 145





    How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation
 will undo us.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 147





    The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the
 heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 150





    Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of
 most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and
 now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung
 those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now?
 your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set
 the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite
 chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an
 inch thick, to this favor she must come; make her laugh at that.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 201





    To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace
 the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 222





 Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
 Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 235





 Lay her i' the earth;
 And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
 May violets spring! 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 260

 1 See FitzGerald
 2 See Tennyson




 A ministering angel shall my sister be. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 263

 1 See Sir Walter Scott




 Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 265





 I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid,
 And not have strewed thy grave.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 267





 Though I am not splenetive and rash
 Yet have I in me something dangerous.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 283





 I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers
 Could not, with all their quantity of love,
 Make up my sum.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 291





 Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
 I'll rant as well as thou.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 305





 Let Hercules himself do what he may,
 The cat will mew and dog will have his day. 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 313

 1 See Borrow
 2 See Kingsley




 There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
 Rough-hew them how we will.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 10





 I once did hold it, as our statists do,
 A baseness to write fair.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 33





 It did me yeoman's service.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 36





    Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special providence in the fall of a
 sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
 now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 232





 A hit, a very palpable hit.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 295





 This fell sergeant, death,
 Is strict in his arrest.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 350





 Report me and my cause aright.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 353





 I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 355





 O God! Horatio, what a wounded name,
 Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me.
 If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
 Absent thee from felicity awhile,
 And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
 To tell my story.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 358





 The rest is silence.

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 372





 Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,
 And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 373





 O proud death! 1
 What feast is toward in thine eternal cell?

 William Shakespeare
 Hamlet [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 378

 1 See Donne




    I will make a Star Chamber matter of it.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 2





    She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 48





    Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is goot gifts.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 65





    I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets
 here.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 205





    "Convey," the wise it call. "Steal!" foh! a fico for the phrase!

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 30





    I am almost out at heels.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 32





    Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 111





    Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 5





    Dispense with trifles.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 47





    Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 158





 Why, then the world's mine oyster,
 Which I with sword will open.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 2





    This is the short and the long of it.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 62





    Like a fair house built upon another man's ground.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 229





    Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 332





    I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 20





    He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks
 holiday, he smells April and May.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 71





 O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
 Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 32





    A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 106





    I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 13





    As good luck would have it.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 86





    A man of my kidney.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: III, Scene: v, Line: 119





    [He] curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 24





    Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 110





    This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. . . . There
 is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 2

 1 See Pliny the Elder
 2 See Samuel Lover




    Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

 William Shakespeare
 The Merry Wives of Windsor [1600-1601],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 10





 Property was thus appalled,
 That the self was not the same;
 Single nature's double name
 Neither two nor one was called.


 William Shakespeare
 The Phoenix and the Turtle [1601],l. 37





 Reason, in itself confounded,
 Saw division grow together.

 William Shakespeare
 The Phoenix and the Turtle [1601],l. 41





 The chance of war.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],prologue, l. 31





    I have had my labor for my travail. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 73

 1 See Cervantes




 Women are angels, wooing:
 Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 310





 Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 313





 The sea being smooth,
 How many shallow bauble boats dare sail
 Upon her patient breast. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 34

 1 See Publilius Syrus




 The heavens themselves, the planets, and this center,
 Observe degree, priority, and place,
 Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
 Office, and custom, in all line of order.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 85





 O! when degree is shaked,
 Which is the ladder to all high designs,
 The enterprise is sick. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 101

 1 See Publilius Syrus




 Take but degree away, untune that string,
 And, hark! what discord follows; each thing meets
 In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters
 Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores
 And make a sop of all this solid globe.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 109





 Then everything includes itself in power,
 Power into will, will into appetite;
 And appetite, an universal wolf,
 So doubly seconded with will and power,
 Must make perforce a universal prey,
 And last eat up himself.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 119





 Like a strutting player, whose conceit
 Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich
 To hear the wooden dialogue and sound
 'Twixt his stretched footing and the scaffoldage.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 153





 And in such indexes, although small pricks
 To their subsequent volumes, there is seen
 The baby figure of the giant mass
 Of things to come. 1  2  3  4

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 343

 1 See Cicero
 2 See Thomas Campbell
 3 See Shelley
 4 See H. G. Wells




    Who wears his wit in his belly, and his guts in his head.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 78





 Modest doubt is called
 The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
 To the bottom of the worst.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 15





 'Tis mad idolatry
 To make the service greater than the god.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 56





    He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own
 trumpet, his own chronicle.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 165





 I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.
 The imaginary relish is so sweet
 That it enchants my sense.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 17





    Words pay no debts.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 56





    To fear the worst oft cures the worse.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 77





    All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an
 ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and
 discharging less than the tenth part of one.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 89





 For to be wise, and love,
 Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 163





 If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth,
 When time is old and hath forgot itself,
 When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy,
 And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.
 And mighty states characterless are grated
 To dusty nothing, yet let memory,
 From false to false, among false maids in love
 Upbraid my falsehood! when they have said "as false
 As air, as water, 1  wind, or sandy earth,
 As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf,
 Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son";
 Yea, let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood,
 "As false as Cressid."

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 191

 1 See Othello




 Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,
 Wherein he puts alms for oblivion.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 145





 Perseverance, dear my lord,
 Keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang
 Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
 In monumental mockery.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 150





 For honor travels in a strait so narrow
 Where one but goes abreast.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 154





 Time is like a fashionable host,
 That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,
 And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly,
 Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles,
 And farewell goes out sighing.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 168





 Beauty, wit,
 High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service,
 Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
 To envious and calumniating time.
 One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 171





 And give to dust that is a little gilt
 More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 178





 My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred;
 And I myself see not the bottom of it.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 314





 You do as chapmen do,
 Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 75





 As many farewells as be stars in heaven.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 44





 And sometimes we are devils to ourselves
 When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,
 Presuming on their changeful potency.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 95





 The kiss you take is better than you give.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 38





 Fie, fie upon her!
 There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
 Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out
 At every joint and motive of her body.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 54





 What's past and what's to come is strewed with husks
 And formless ruin of oblivion.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 165





 The end crowns all, 1  2  3  4  5
 And that old common arbitrator, Time,
 Will one day end it.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: IV, Scene: v, Line: 223

 1 See Anonymous Latin
 2 See Heywood
 3 See All's Well That Ends Well
 4 See Herrick
 5 See Quarles




 Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 109





 Hector is dead; there is no more to say.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: V, Scene: x, Line: 22





    O world! world! world! thus is the poor agent despised.

 William Shakespeare
 Troilus and Cressida [1601-1603],Act: V, Scene: x, Line: 36





 Love all, trust a few,
 Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
 Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
 Under thy own life's key: be checked for silence,
 But never taxed for speech.

 William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 [1601-1603], 1 Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 74

 1 See 




 It were all one
 That I should love a bright particular star
 And think to wed it, he is so above me.

 William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 [1601-1603], 1 Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 97





 The hind that would be mated by the lion
 Must die for love.

 William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 [1601-1603], 1 Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 103





 My friends were poor, but honest.

 William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 [1601-1603], 1 Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 203





 Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
 Where most it promises.

 William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 [1601-1603], 1 Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 145





    They say miracles are past.

 William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 [1601-1603], 1 Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 1





 A young man married is a man that's marred.

 William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 [1601-1603], 1 Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 315





    The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

 William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 [1601-1603], 1 Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 83





 There's place and means for every man alive.

 William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 [1601-1603], 1 Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 379





 All's well that end's well: still the fine's the crown;
 Whate'er the course, the end is the renown. 1  2  3  4  5

 William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 [1601-1603], 1 Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 35

 1 See Anonymous Latin
 2 See Heywood
 3 See Hamlet
 4 See Herrick
 5 See Quarles




    I am a man whom Fortune hath cruelly scratched.

 William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 [1601-1603], 1 Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 28





 Praising what is lost
 Makes the remembrance dear.

 William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 [1601-1603], 1 Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 19





 The inaudible and noiseless foot of time.

 William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 [1601-1603], 1 Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 41





 Love that comes too late,
 Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried.

 William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 [1601-1603], 1 Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 57





 All impediments in fancy's course
 Are motives of more fancy.

 William Shakespeare
 All's Well That Ends Well
 [1601-1603], 1 Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 216





 Spirits are not finely touched
 But to fine issues.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 35





    Good counselors lack no clients.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 115





 And liberty plucks justice by the nose.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 29





 I hold you as a thing enskyed and sainted.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 34





 A man whose blood
 Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
 The wanton stings and motions of the sense.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 57





 Our doubts are traitors,
 And make us lose the good we oft might win,
 By fearing to attempt. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 78

 1 See Macbeth




 We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
 Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
 And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
 Their perch, and not their terror.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 1





 The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,
 May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
 Guiltier than him they try.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 19





 Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 38





    Great with child, and longing . . . for stewed prunes.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 94





 This will last out a night in Russia,
 When nights are longest there.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 144





    His face is the worst thing about him.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 167





 Condemn the fault, and not the act of it?

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 37





 No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,
 Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,
 The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,
 Become them with one half so good a grace
 As mercy does. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 59

 1 See The Merchant of Venice




 Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once;
 And He that might the vantage best have took,
 Found out the remedy. How would you be,
 If He, which is the top of judgment, should
 But judge you as you are?

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 73





 The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 90





 O! it is excellent
 To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
 To use it like a giant.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 107





 But man, proud man,
 Drest in a little brief authority,
 Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
 His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
 Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
 As make the angels weep.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 117





 That in the captain's but a choleric word,
 Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 130





 It oft falls out,
 To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 118





 The miserable have no other medicine
 But only hope.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 2





 Be absolute for death.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 5





 A breath thou art,
 Servile to all the skyey influences.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 8





 Thou hast nor youth nor age;
 But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep,
 Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth
 Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms
 Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich,
 Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty,
 To make thy riches pleasant.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 32





 The sense of death is most in apprehension, 1
 And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
 In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
 As when a giant dies.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 76

 1 See Publilius Syrus




 If I must die,
 I will encounter darkness as a bride,
 And hug it in my arms.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 81





 The cunning livery of hell.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 93





 Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
 To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;
 This sensible warm motion to become
 A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit
 To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
 In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;
 To be imprisoned in the viewless winds,
 And blown with restless violence round about
 The pendant world.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 116





 The weariest and most loathed worldly life
 That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
 Can lay on nature, is a paradise
 To what we fear of death.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 127





    The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 182

 1 See Spenser




    Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 214





    There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 279





    This news is old enough, yet it is every day's news.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 249





 He who the sword of heaven will bear
 Should be as holy as severe.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 283





 O, what may man within him hide,
 Though angel on the outward side!

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 293





 Take, O take those lips away,
 That so sweetly were forsworn;
 And those eyes, the break of day,
 Lights that do mislead the morn:
 But my kisses bring again, bring again;
 Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 1





 Music oft hath such a charm
 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 16

 1 See Congreve




    Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 46





    I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 193





 We would, and we would not.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 37





 A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
 And razure of oblivion.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 12





 Truth is truth
 To the end of reckoning.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 45





 Neither maid, widow, nor wife.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 173





 Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure,
 Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 411





 They say best men are molded out of faults,
 And, for the most, become much more the better
 For being a little bad.

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 440





 What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Measure for Measure [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 539

 1 See Plautus




 Horribly stuffed with epithets of war.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 14





 A fellow almost damned in a fair wife.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 21





 The bookish theoric.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 24





 We cannot all be masters.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 43





 And when he's old, cashiered.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 48





 In following him, I follow but myself.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 58





 But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
 For daws to peck at.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 64





 An old black ram
 Is tupping your white ewe.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 88





    You are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 108





    Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 117





 Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 59





 The wealthy curled darlings of our nation.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 68





 The bloody book of law
 You shall yourself read in the bitter letter
 After your own sense.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 67





 Rude am I in my speech,
 And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 81





 Little shall I grace my cause
 In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,
 I will a round unvarnished tale deliver
 Of my whole course of love.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 88





 A maiden never bold;
 Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion
 Blushed at herself.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 94





 Still questioned me the story of my life
 From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes
 That I have passed.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 129





 Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
 Of moving accidents by flood and field,
 Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 134





 Hills whose heads touch heaven.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 141





 And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
 The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads
 Do grow beneath their shoulders.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 143





 My story being done,
 She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:
 She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange,
 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:
 She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished
 That heaven had made her such a man; she thanked me,
 And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
 I should but teach him how to tell my story,
 And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
 She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
 And I loved her that she did pity them.
 This only is the witchcraft I have used.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 158





 I do perceive here a divided duty.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 181





 To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
 Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 204





 The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 208





    Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 324





    Put money in thy purse.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 345





    The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him
 shortly as bitter at coloquintida.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 354





 Framed to make women false.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 404





 The enchafed flood.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 17





 One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 63





 You are pictures out of doors,
 Bells in your parlors, wildcats in your kitchens,
 Saints in your injuries, devils being offended,
 Players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 109





 For I am nothing if not critical.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 119





 I am not merry, but I do beguile
 The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 122





 She that was ever fair and never proud,
 Had tongue at will and yet was never loud.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 148





 Iago: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer. 1
 Desdemona: O most lame and impotent conclusion!

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 160

 1 See King Henry VI, Part II




    You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 165





 If it were now to die,
 'Twere now to be most happy.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 192





    Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is
 native to them.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 218





 Egregiously an ass.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 321





    I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 34





 Potations pottle deep.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 57





    Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be
 souls must not be saved.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 106





 Silence that dreadful bell! it frights the isle
 From her propriety.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 177





 But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 243





 Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 249

 1 See Cervantes




    Reputation, reputation, reputation! O! I have lost my reputation. I have
 lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 264





    Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit,
 and lost without deserving.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 270





    O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let
 us call thee devil!

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 285





    O God! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their
 brains; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform
 ourselves into beasts.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 293





    Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 315





 Play the villain.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 345





 How poor are they that have not patience!
 What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 379





 Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul
 But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
 Chaos is come again. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 99

 1 See Venus and Adonis




 Men should be what they seem.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 126





 Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
 As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
 The worst of words.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 131





 Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
 Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
 Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
 But he that filches from me my good name
 Robs me of that which not enriches him,
 And makes me poor indeed.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 155





 O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
 It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
 The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss
 Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;
 But, O! what damned minutes tells he o'er
 Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet soundly loves!

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 165





 Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 172





 Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy,
 To follow still the changes of the moon
 With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt
 Is once to be resolved.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 177





 I humbly do beseech you of your pardon
 For too much loving you.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 212





 If I do prove her haggard,
 Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings,
 I'd whistle her off and let her down the wind,
 To prey at fortune.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 260





 I am declined
 Into the vale of years.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 265





 O curse of marriage!
 That we can call these delicate creatures ours,
 And not their appetites. I had rather be a toad,
 And live upon the vapor of a dungeon,
 Than keep a corner in the thing I love
 For others' uses.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 268





 Trifles light as air
 Are to the jealous confirmations strong
 As proofs of holy writ.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 323





 Not poppy, nor mandragora, 1
 Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
 Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
 Which thou ow'dst yesterday.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 331

 1 See Antony and Cleopatra




 I swear 'tis better to be much abused
 Than but to know 't a little.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 337





 He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n,
 Let him not know 't and he's not robbed at all. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 343

 1 See Publilius Syrus




 O! now, forever
 Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content!
 Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars
 That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
 Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,
 The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,
 The royal banner, and all quality,
 Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
 And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats
 The immortal Jove's dread clamors counterfeit,
 Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 348





 Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 361





 No hinge nor loop
 To hang a doubt on.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 366





 On horror's head horrors accumulate.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 371





 Take note, take note, O world!
 To be direct and honest is not safe.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 378





 But this denoted a foregone conclusion.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 429





 Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,
 For 'tis of aspics' tongues!

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 450





 Like to the Pontick sea,
 Whose icy current and compulsive course
 Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on
 To the Propontic and the Hellespont,
 Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace,
 Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,
 Till that a capable and wide revenge
 Swallow them up.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 454





 Our new heraldry is hands not hearts.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 48





 But jealous souls will not be answered so;
 They are not ever jealous for the cause,
 But jealous for they are jealous; 'tis a monster
 Begot upon itself, born on itself.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 158





 'Tis the strumpet's plague
 To beguile many and be beguiled by one.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 97





    They laugh that win.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 123





    My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand. O! the
 world hath not a sweeter creature; she might lie by an emperor's side and
 command him tasks.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 190





    O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 198





    But yet the pity of it, Iago! O! Iago, the pity of it, Iago!

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 205





 Is this the noble nature
 Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue
 The shot of accident nor dart of chance,
 Could neither graze nor pierce?

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 276





 I understand a fury in your words,
 But not the words.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 31





 Steeped me in poverty to the very lips.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 49





 But, alas! to make me
 A fixed figure for the time of scorn
 To point his slow and moving finger at.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 52





 Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubin.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 62





 O thou weed!
 Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet
 That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 66





 O heaven! that such companions thou'dst unfold,
 And put in every honest hand a whip
 To lash the rascals naked through the world.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 141





 Unkindness may do much;
 And his unkindness may defeat my life,
 But never taint my love.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 159





 The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree,
 Sing all a green willow; 1
 Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,
 Sing willow, willow, willow.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 41

 1 See Heywood




 It makes us, or it mars us.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 4





 Every way makes my gain.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 14





 He hath a daily beauty in his life.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 19





 This is the night
 That either makes me or fordoes me quite.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 128





 And smooth as monumental alabaster.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 5





 Put out the light, and then put out the light:
 If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,
 I can again thy former light restore,
 Should I repent me; but once put out thy light,
 Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,
 I know not where is that Promethean heat
 That can thy light relume.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 7





 It is the very error of the moon;
 She comes more near the earth than she was wont,
 And makes men mad.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 107





 She was as false as water. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 132

 1 See Troilus and Cressida




 Curse his better angel from his side,
 And fall to reprobation.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 206





 Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,
 And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 266





 An honorable murderer, if you will;
 For naught I did in hate, but all in honor.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 293





 I have done the state some service, and they know 't;
 No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,
 When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
 Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
 Nor set down aught in malice: then, must you speak
 Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
 Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
 Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,
 Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
 Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes
 Albeit unused to the melting mood,
 Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
 Their med'cinable gum.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 338





 In Aleppo once,
 Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk
 Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
 I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
 And smote him thus.

 William Shakespeare
 Othello [1604-1605],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 354





 My love's
 More richer than my tongue.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: 1, Line: 79





 Now, our joy,
 Although our last, not least. 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 84

 1 See Spenser
 2 See Julius Caesar




 Nothing will come of nothing. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 92

 1 See Lucretius




 Mend your speech a little,
 Lest you may mar your fortunes.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 96





 Lear: So young, and so untender?
 Cordelia: So young, my lord, and true.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 108





 Come not between the dragon and his wrath.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 124





 Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow
 Upon the foul disease.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 166





 I want that glib and oily art,
 To speak and purpose not.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 227





 A still-soliciting eye.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 234





 Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
 Who covers faults, at last shame them derides.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 282





    The infirmity of his age.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 296





 Who in the lusty stealth of nature take
 More composition and fierce quality
 Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,
 Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 11





    We have seen the best of our time: machinations, hollowness, treachery,
 and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 125





    This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in
 fortune-often the surfeit of our own behavior-we make guilty of our
 disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by
 necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by
 spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced
 obedience of planetary influence.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 129





    Edgar-[Enter Edgar]
 and pat he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy: my cue is
 villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 149





    That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of
 me is diligence.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 36





    Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped out, when Lady the brach
 may stand by the fire and stink.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 125





 Have more than thou showest,
 Speak less than thou knowest,
 Lend less than thou owest.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 132





 Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,
 More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child,
 Than the sea-monster.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 283





 How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
 To have a thankless child!

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 312





 Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 371





    The son and heir of a mongrel bitch.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 23





 I have seen better faces in my time
 Than stands on any shoulder that I see
 Before me at this instant.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 99





 A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 164





 Fortune, good night, smile once more; turn thy wheel!

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 180





 Hysterica passio! down, thou climbing sorrow!
 Thy element's below.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 57





 That sir which serves and seeks for gain,
 And follows but for form,
 Will pack when it begins to rain,
 And leave thee in the storm.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 79





 Nature in you stands on the very verge
 Of her confine.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 149





 Necessity's sharp pinch!

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 214





 Our basest beggars
 Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
 Allow not nature more than nature needs,
 Man's life is cheap as beast's.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 267





 Let not women's weapons, waterdrops,
 Stain my man's cheeks!

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 280





 I have full cause of weeping, but this heart
 Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
 Or e'er I'll weep. O fool! I shall go mad.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 287





 Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
 You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
 Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
 You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
 Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
 Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
 Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
 Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once
 That make ingrateful man!

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 1





 I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 16





 A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 20





    There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 35





 I will be the pattern of all patience.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 37





 I am a man
 More sinned against than sinning.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 59





 The art of our necessities is strange,
 That can make vile things precious.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 70





 He that has and a little tiny wit,
 With hey, ho, the wind and the rain.
 Must make content with his fortunes fit,
 Though the rain it raineth every day. 1

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 76

 1 See Twelfth-Night




 O! that way madness lies; let me shun that.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 21





 Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,
 That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
 How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
 Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you
 From seasons such as these?

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 28





 Take physic, pomp;
 Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 33





 Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill:
 Halloo, halloo, loo, loo!

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 75





    Out-paramoured the Turk.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 91





    Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk,
 the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three
 on 's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no
 more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you
 lendings! Come; unbutton here.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 105





    'Tis a naughty night to swim in.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 113





    The green mantle of the standing pool.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 137





 But mice and rats and such small deer
 Have been Tom's food for seven long year.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 142





 The prince of darkness is a gentleman.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 147





 Poor Tom's a-cold.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 151





 Child Rowland to the dark tower came,
 His word was still, Fie, foh, and fum,
 I smell the blood of a British man.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 185





    He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's
 love, or a whore's oath.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: vi, Line: 20





 The little dogs and all,
 Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: vi, Line: 65





    Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: vi, Line: 81





 I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: vii, Line: 54





 Out, vile jelly!

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: vii, Line: 83





 The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 3





 The worst is not,
 So long as we can say, "This is the worst."

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 27





 As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
 They kill us for their sport.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 36





 You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
 Blows in your face.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 30





 She that herself will sliver and disbranch
 From her material sap, perforce must wither
 And come to deadly use.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 34





 Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;
 Filths savor but themselves.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 38





 Tigers, not daughters.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 39





 It is the stars,
 The stars above us, govern our conditions.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 34





 Our foster-nurse of nature is repose.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 12





 How fearful
 And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!
 The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
 Show scarce so gross as beetles; halfway down
 Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!
 Methinks he seems no bigger than his head.
 The fishermen that walk upon the beach
 Appear like mice, and yond tall anchoring bark
 Diminished to her cock, her cock a buoy
 Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge,
 That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes,
 Cannot be heard so high.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 12





    Nature's above art in that respect.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 87





 Ay, every inch a king.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 110





 The wren goes to 't, and the small gilded fly
 Does lecher in my sight.
 Let copulation thrive.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 115





    Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 133





    A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see
 how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change
 places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 154





 Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
 Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
 And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
 Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 169





 Get thee glass eyes;
 And, like a scurvy politician, seem
 To see the things thou dost not.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 175





 When we are born, we cry that we are come
 To this great stage of fools.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 187





 Then, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vi, Line: 192





 Mine enemy's dog,
 Though he had bit me, should have stood that night
 Against my fire.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 36





 Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
 Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
 Do scald like molten lead.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 46





 I am a very foolish fond old man,
 Fourscore and upward, not an hour more or less;
 And, to deal plainly,
 I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 60





 Pray you now, forget and forgive.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: vii, Line: 84





 Men must endure
 Their going hence, even as their coming hither:
 Ripeness is all.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 9





 Come, let's away to prison;
 We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:
 When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,
 And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,
 And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
 At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
 Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
 Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;
 And take upon's the mystery of things,
 As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,
 In a walled prison, packs and sets of great ones
 That ebb and flow by the moon.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 8





 Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,
 The gods themselves throw incense.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 20





 The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
 Make instruments to plague us.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 172





 The wheel is come full circle.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 176





 Howl, howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones:
 Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so
 That heaven's vaults should crack. She's gone forever.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 259





 Her voice was ever soft,
 Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 274





 And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life!
 Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,
 And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,
 Never, never, never, never, never! 1  2
 Pray you, undo this button.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 307

 1 See Pitt
 2 See Churchill




 Vex not his ghost: O! let him pass; he hates him
 That would upon the rack of this tough world
 Stretch him out longer.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 315





 The weight of this sad time we must obey;
 Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
 The oldest hath borne most: we that are young,
 Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

 William Shakespeare
 King Lear [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 325





 First Witch: When shall we three meet again
 In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
 Second Witch: When the hurlyburly's done,
 When the battle's lost and won.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 1





 Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
 Hover through the fog and filthy air.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 12





 Banners flout the sky.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 50





 A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,
 And munched, and munched, and munched: "Give me," quoth I:
 "Aroint thee, witch!" the rump-fed ronyon cries.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 4





 Sleep shall neither night nor day
 Hang upon his pent-house lid.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 19





 Dwindle, peak, and pine.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 23





 So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 38





 If you can look into the seeds of time,
 And say which grain will grow and which will not,
 Speak.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 58





 And to be king
 Stands not within the prospect of belief.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 73





 The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
 And these are of them.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 79





 Or have we eaten on the insane root
 That takes the reason prisoner?

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 84





 And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
 The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
 Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's
 In deepest consequence.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 123





 As happy prologues to the swelling act
 Of the imperial theme.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 128





 I am Thane of Cawdor:
 If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
 And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
 Against the use of nature? Present fears
 Are less than horrible imaginings.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 134





 If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,
 Without my stir.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 143





 Come what come may,
 Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 146





 Nothing in his life
 Became him like the leaving it; he died
 As one that had been studied in his death
 To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd,
 As 'twere a careless trifle.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 7





 There's no art
 To find the mind's construction in the face:
 He was a gentleman on whom I built
 An absolute trust.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: iv, Line: 11





 Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
 What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;
 It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
 To catch the nearest way.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 16





 The raven himself is hoarse
 That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
 Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
 That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here,
 And fill me from the crown to the toe top full
 Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood,
 Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
 That no compunctious visitings of nature
 Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
 The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
 And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 38





 Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
 To cry, "Hold, hold!"

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 54





 Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
 May read strange matters.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 63





 Look like the innocent flower,
 But be the serpent under 't.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 66





 Duncan: This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air
 Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
 Unto our gentle senses.
 Banquo:This guest of summer,
 The temple-haunting martlet, does approve
 By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath
 Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,
 Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird
 Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle:
 Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed
 The air is delicate.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vi, Line: 1





 If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
 It were done quickly; if the assassination
 Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
 With his surcease success; that but this blow
 Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
 But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
 We'd jump the life to come.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 1





 This even-handed justice.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 10





 Besides, this Duncan
 Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
 So clear in his great office, that his virtues
 Will plead like angels trumpet-tongued 1  against
 The deep damnation of his taking-off;
 And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
 Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, horsed
 Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
 Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
 That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur
 To prick the sides of my intent, but only
 Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
 And falls on the other.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 16

 1 See Matthew 24:31




 I have bought
 Golden opinions from all sorts of people.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 32





 Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would,"
 Like the poor cat i' the adage.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 44





 I dare do all that may become a man;
 Who dares do more is none.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 46





 Nor time nor place
 Did then adhere.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 51





 I have given suck, and know
 How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:
 I would, while it was smiling in my face,
 Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums,
 And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you
 Have done to this.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 54





 Macbeth: If we should fail-
 Lady Macbeth:We fail!
 But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
 And we'll not fail.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 59





 Memory, the warder of the brain.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 65





 Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
 False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: I, Scene: vii, Line: 81





 The moon is down.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 2





 There's husbandry in heaven;
 Their candles are all out.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 4





 Merciful powers!
 Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature
 Gives way to in repose.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 7





 Shut up
 In measureless content.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 16





 Is this a dagger which I see before me,
 The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:
 I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
 Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
 To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
 A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
 Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 33





 Now o'er the one half-world
 Nature seems dead; and wicked dreams abuse
 The curtained sleep; witchcraft celebrates
 Pale Hecate's offerings.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 49





 Thou sure and firm-set earth,
 Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
 The very stones prate of my whereabout. 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 56

 1 See Habakkuk 2:11
 2 See Luke 19:40




 The bell invites me.
 Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
 That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 62





 It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman,
 Which gives the stern'st good-night.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 4





 The attempt and not the deed
 Confounds us.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 12





 Had he not resembled
 My father as he slept I had done 't.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 14





 I had most need of blessing, and "Amen"
 Stuck in my throat.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 33





 Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more!
 Macbeth does murder sleep!" the innocent sleep,
 Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
 The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
 Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
 Chief nourisher in life's feast.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 36





 Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
 Shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more!

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 43





 Infirm of purpose!
 Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead
 Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood
 That fears a painted devil.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 53





 Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
 Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
 The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
 Making the green one red.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 61





    The primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 22

 1 See Bion
 2 See Hamlet




    It [drink] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 34





 The labor we delight in physics pain.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 56





 Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
 Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
 The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence
 The life o' the building!

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 72





 Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit. 1  2  3  4

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 83

 1 See Homer
 2 See Virgil
 3 See Daniel
 4 See Shelley




 Had I but died an hour before this chance
 I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant,
 There's nothing serious in mortality,
 All is but toys; renown and grace is dead,
 The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
 Is left this vault to brag of.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 98





 Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,
 Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 115





 In the great hand of God I stand, and thence
 Against the undivulged pretense I fight
 Of treasonous malice.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 137





 To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
 Which the false man does easy.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 143





 A falcon, towering in her pride of place,
 Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: II, Scene: iv, Line: 12





 I must become a borrower of the night
 For a dark hour or twain.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 27





 To be thus is nothing;
 But to be safely thus.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 48





 Murderer:We are men, my liege.
 Macbeth: Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 91





 I am one, my liege,
 Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
 Have so incensed that I am reckless what
 I do to spite the world.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 108





 So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune,
 That I would set my life on any chance,
 To mend it or be rid on 't.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 112





 Things without all remedy
 Should be without regard: what's done is done.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 11





 We have scotched the snake, not killed it.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 13





 Duncan is in his grave;
 After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;
 Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,
 Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
 Can touch him further.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 22





 Then be thou jocund. Ere the bat hath flown
 His cloistered flight, ere, to black Hecate's summons
 The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums
 Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done
 A deed of dreadful note.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 40





 Come, seeling night,
 Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,
 And with thy bloody and invisible hand
 Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
 Which keeps me pale! Light thickens, and the crow
 Makes wing to the rooky wood.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: ii, Line: 46





 Now spurs the lated traveler apace
 To gain the timely inn.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iii, Line: 6





 But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
 To saucy doubts and fears.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 24





 Now good digestion wait on appetite,
 And health on both!

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 38





 Thou canst not say I did it: never shake
 Thy gory locks at me.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 50





 The air-drawn dagger.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 62





 I drink to the general joy of the whole table.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 89





 What man dare, I dare:
 Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
 The armed rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger,
 Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
 Shall never tremble.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 99





 Hence, horrible shadow!
 Unreal Mockery, hence!

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 106





 Stand not upon the order of your going,
 But go at once.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 119





 It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood:
 Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 122





 Macbeth:What is the night?
 Lady Macbeth: Almost at odds with morning, which is which.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 126





 I am in blood
 Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more,
 Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: III, Scene: iv, Line: 136





 Double, double toil and trouble;
 Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 10





 Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
 Wool of bat, and tongue of dog.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 14





 Finger of birth-strangled babe,
 Ditch-delivered by a drab.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 30





 By the pricking of my thumbs,
 Something wicked this way comes.
 Open, locks,
 Whoever knocks!

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 44





 How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 48





 A deed without a name. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 49

 1 See Ann Radcliffe




 Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
 The power of man, for none of woman born
 Shall harm Macbeth.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 79





 But yet I'll make assurance double sure,
 And take a bond of fate.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 83





 Macbeth shall never vanquished be until
 Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill
 Shall come against him.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 92





 Show his eyes, and grieve his heart;
 Come like shadows, so depart.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 110





 What! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 117





 The weird sisters.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: i, Line: 136





 When our actions do not,
 Our fears do make us traitors.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 3





 He wants the natural touch.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: ii, Line: 9





 Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 22





 Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
 Uproar the universal peace, confound
 All unity on earth.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 98





 Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
 Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 209





 All my pretty ones?
 Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
 What! all my pretty chickens and their dam
 At one fell swoop?

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 216





 Malcolm: Dispute it like a man.
 Macbeth:I shall do so;
 But I must also feel it as a man:
 I cannot but remember such things were
 That were most precious to me.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: IV, Scene: iii, Line: 219





    Out, damned spot! out, I say!

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 38





    Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard?

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 40





    Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 42





    The Thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 46





    All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: i, Line: 56





 Those he commands move only in command,
 Nothing in love; now does he feel his title
 Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
 Upon a dwarfish thief.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 19





 The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon
 Where gott'st thou that goose look?

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 11





 Thou lily-livered boy.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 15





 I have lived long enough: my way of life
 Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; 1
 And that which should accompany old age,
 As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,
 I must not look to have; but, in their stead,
 Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath,
 Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 22

 1 See Byron




 Macbeth: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
 Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
 Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
 And with some sweet oblivious antidote
 Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff
 Which weighs upon the heart?
 Doctor:Therein the patient
 Must minister to himself.
 Macbeth: Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 40





 I would applaud thee to the very echo,
 That should applaud again.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: iii, Line: 53





 Hang out our banners on the outward walls;
 The cry is still, "They come"; our castle's strength
 Will laugh a siege to scorn.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 1





 My fell of hair
 Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
 As life were in 't. I have supped full with horrors.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 11





 She should have died hereafter;
 There would have been a time for such a word.
 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
 Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
 To the last syllable of recorded time;
 And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
 The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
 Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
 That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
 And then is heard no more; it is a tale
 Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
 Signifying nothing.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 17





 I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,
 And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 49





 Blow, wind! come, wrack!
 At least we'll die with harness on our back.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: v, Line: 51





 Why should I play the Roman fool, and die
 On mine own sword?

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 30





 I bear a charmed life.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 41





 And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
 That palter with us in a double sense;
 That keep the word of promise to our ear
 And break it to our hope.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 48





 Live to be the show and gaze o' the time.

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 53





 Lay on, Macduff,
 And damned be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!"

 William Shakespeare
 Macbeth [1605-1606],Act: V, Scene: vii, Line: 62





 You shall see in him
 The triple pillar of the world transformed
 Into a strumpet's fool.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 12





 There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 15





 Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
 Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.
 Kingdoms are clay.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: i, Line: 33





 In nature's infinite book of secrecy
 A little I can read.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 11





 I love long life better than figs.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 34





 On the sudden
 A Roman thought hath struck him.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: ii, Line: 90





 Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
 Bliss in our brows bent.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 35





 O! my oblivion is a very Antony,
 And I am all forgotten.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: iii, Line: 90





 Give me to drink mandragora. 1  . . .
 That I might sleep out this great gap of time
 My Antony is away.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 4

 1 See Othello




 O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 21





 The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm
 And burgonet of men.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 23





 Where's my serpent of old Nile?

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 25





 A morsel for a monarch.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 31





 My salad days,
 When I was green in judgment.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: I, Scene: v, Line: 73





 We, ignorant of ourselves,
 Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
 Deny us for our good; so find we profit
 By losing of our prayers.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 5





 Epicurean cooks
 Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: i, Line: 24





 No worse a husband than the best of men.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 135





 The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
 Burned on the water; the poop was beaten gold,
 Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that
 The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,
 Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
 The water which they beat to follow faster,
 As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,
 It beggared all description.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 199





 Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
 Her infinite variety; other women cloy
 The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
 Where most she satisfies; for vilest things
 Become themselves in her, that the holy priests
 Bless her when she is riggish.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: ii, Line: 243





 I have not kept my square; but that to come
 Shall all be done by the rule.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: iii, Line: 6





 Music, moody food
 Of us that trade in love. 1

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 1

 1 See Twelfth-Night




 Though it be honest, it is never good
 To bring bad news. 1  2

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: v, Line: 85

 1 See Sophocles
 2 See King Henry IV, Part II




 Come, thou monarch of the vine,
 Plumpy Bacchus, with pink eyne!

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: II, Scene: vii, Line: 120





 Ambition,
 The soldier's virtue.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: i, Line: 22





 Celerity is never more admired
 Than by the negligent.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: vii, Line: 24





 We have kissed away
 Kingdoms and provinces.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: viii, Line: 17





 He wears the rose
 Of youth upon him.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: xi, Line: 20





 Men's judgments are
 A parcel of their fortunes, and things outward
 Do draw the inward quality after them,
 To suffer all alike.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: xi, Line: 31





 I found you as a morsel, cold upon
 Dead Caesar's trencher.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: xi, Line: 116





 Let's have one other gaudy night.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: xi, Line: 182





 Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious
 Is to be frightened out of fear.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: III, Scene: xi, Line: 194





 To business that we love we rise betime,
 And go to 't with delight.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: IV, Scene: iv, Line: 20





 O infinite virtue! com'st thou smiling from
 The world's great snare uncaught?

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: IV, Scene: viii, Line: 17





 The shirt of Nessus is upon me.

 William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: IV, Scene: x, Line: 56