| Quotes |
Topic |
| Animals | This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself. |
| Apparel | Old Rose is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear an old blue coat All buttoned down before. |
| Apparel | When this old cap was new 'Tis since two hundred years. |
| Beggary | I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why; A king cannot swagger, not drink like a beggar, Nor be half so happy as I. . . . . Let the back and side go bare. |
| Eating | The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, That all the year eats neither partridge not quail, But sets up his rest and makes up his feast, With a crust of brown bread and a pot of good ale. |
| Eating | Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all evils. |
| Mountains | Over the hills and o'er the main, To Flanders, Portugal and Spain, Queen Anne commands and we'll obey, Over the hills and far away. |
| Nonsense | When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on, He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one. "With the skinny side out, and the wooly side in, 'Twill be warm and convanient," said Bryan O'Lynn. |
| Nonsense | There's a skin without and a skin within, A covering skin and a lining skin, But the skin within is the skin without Doubled and carried complete throughout. |
| Proverbs | Old soldiers never die; They fade away! |
| Proverbs | A bitter drug oft brings relief. |
| Proverbs | A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light. |
| Proverbs | A credulous thing is love. |
| Proverbs | A gift in time of need is most acceptable. |
| Proverbs | A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it. |
| Proverbs | A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens. |
| Proverbs | A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety. |
| Proverbs | Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey. |
| Proverbs | Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one, the fish will be found. |
| Proverbs | An injury may prove a blessing. |
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