38 quotes found
"But me no buts."
"Cause me no causes."
"Cook me no cooks."
"Clerk me no clerks."
"Diamond me no diamonds! prize me no prizes!"
"End me no ends."
"Fool me no fools."
"Front me no fronts."
"Gift me no Gifts; I have none for thee."
"Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle."
"Madam me no madam."
"Map me no maps."
"Midas me no Midas."
"O me no O's."
"Parish me no parishes."
"Petition me no petitions."
"Play me no plays."
"Plot me no plots."
"Poem me no poems."
"Thank me no thanks, nor proud me no prouds."
"Tut me no tuts."
"Virgin me no virgins."
"Vow me no vows."
"Cody me no Codys about America."
"Tennessee me no Tennessees."
"Matchmaker, matchmaker, plan me no plans. I'm in no rush. maybe I've learned Playing with matches a girl can get burned. So bring me no ring, groom me no groom, Find me no find, catch me no catch. Unless he's a matchless match!"
"A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits."
"I come to tell you this, and to advise you to shut the gates of your gardens forthwith, and to cease the harangues of a master, since you only pass for a philosopher among fools, and for a fool among philosophers."
"Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur."
"If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows."
"This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords."
"A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge."
"Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers."
"He [Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes."
"Temple was a man of the world among men of letters, a man of letters among men of the world."
"Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima."
"Translated: "Most learned of the fair; fairest of the learned"."
"Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening."