| Quotes |
Topic |
| Action | Put his shoulder to the wheel. |
| Ambition | Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. |
| Beggary | Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him." |
| Beggary | Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. |
| Birds | Birds of a feather will gather together. |
| Boating | Like the watermen that row one way and look another. |
| Books and Reading | A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. |
| Character | Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in him. |
| Childhood | steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings. |
| Childhood | Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. |
| Choice | He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. |
| Churches | Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel. |
| Conscience | They have cheveril consciences that will stretch. |
| Contention | 'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more as bad in a moment. |
| Contention | He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. |
| Cookery | Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen. |
| Deceit | If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. |
| Devil | Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all. |
| Devil | The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies. |
| Disease | crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies. |
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