Clergy From England

"I light my candle from their torches."

"Going as if he trod upon eggs."

"Though it rain daggers with their points downward."

"Diogenes struck the father when the son swore."

"Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven."

"To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance."

"[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels.""

"He is only fantastical that is not in fashion."

"Diogenes struck the father when the son swore, because he taught him no better."

"To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."

"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."

"Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all."

"And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard."

"And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator."

"Birds of a feather will gather together."

"Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end."

"Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play."

"Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases...but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul."

"Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards."

"Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her."

"The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.""

"All places are distant from heaven alike."

"Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not."

"What can't be cured must be endured."

"Many things happen between the cup and the lip."

"Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing."

"Christ himself was poor... And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor."

"Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun."

"Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop."

"[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio dæmonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings."

"Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long."

"Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer."

"All poets are mad."

"Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him."

"Our wrangling lawyers... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter,—some of them in hell."

"Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs."

"Women wear the breeches."

"Penny wise, pound foolish."

"Rob Peter, and pay Paul."

"Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself."

"Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes."

"Like the watermen that row one way and look another."

"As that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight."

"I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones."

"It is most true, stylus virum arguit,—our style bewrays us."

"Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses."

"I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."

"We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer... Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best."

"They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works."

"I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling."