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"A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be."
"I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged."
"Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared."
"And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus, Things which in hungry mortals' eyes find favour."
"Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen."
"Cooking is revelation and creation; and a woman can find special satisfaction in a successful cake or a flaky pastry, for not every one can do it: one must have the gift."
"All is not golde that outward shewith bright."
"A Fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried Razors up and down."
"The barber's man hath been seen with him, and the old ornament of his cheek hath already stuffed tennis-balls."
"I must to the barber's; * * * for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face."
"And his chin new reap'd, Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home."
"Whose beard they have sing'd off with brands of fire; And ever, as it blaz'd, they threw on him Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair: My master preaches patience to him and the while His man with scissors nicks him like a fool."
"Our courteous Antony, * * * * * * Being barber'd ten times o'er, goes to the feast."
"The first (barbers) that entered Italy came out of Sicily and it was in the 454 yeare after the foundation of Rome. Brought in they were by P. Ticinius Mena as Verra doth report for before that time they never cut their hair. The first that was shaven every day was Scipio Africanus, and after him cometh Augustus the Emperor who evermore used the rasor."
"Thy boist'rous locks, no worthy match For valour to assail, nor by the sword * * * * * * But by the barber's razor best subdued."
"But he shaved with a shell when he chose, 'Twas the manner of primitive man."
"Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished."
"With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek; And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barbers take a costly care."
"The barber, cutting the growth, removing the flourishing roots."
"Of the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty after all, that we may-be deluded, That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all, That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only. May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters, The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known."
"Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum."
"A fair exterior is a silent recommendation."
"Looked as if she had walked straight out of the Ark."
"L'habit ne fait le moine."
"Non semper ea sunt, quæ videntur; decipit Frons prima multos: rara mens intelligit Quod interiore condidit cura angulo."
"Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsæ."
"All is not gold that glisteneth."
"Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones."
"He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked."
"All is not golde that shewyth goldishe hewe."
"Même quand l'oiseau marche on sent qu'il a des ailes."
"Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine."
"Fronti nulla fides."
"Judge not according to the appearance."
"Gloomy as night he stands."
"Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize, Nor all that glisters gold."
"Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."
"By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated."
"He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it."
"Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum."
"All, as they say, that glitters is not gold."
"We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought. That one might almost say her body thought."
"Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire."
"Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are."
"Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight."
"Hyt is not al golde that glareth."
"But every thyng which schyneth as the gold, Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told."
"As large as life, and twice as natural."
"Think not I am what I appear."
"O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad fræ monie a blunder free us. And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion!"