| Quotes |
Topic |
| Light | For I light my candle from their torches. |
| Matrimony | Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven. |
| Medicine | The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side. |
| Merriment | Go then merrily to Heaven. |
| Miscellaneous | A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. |
| Misers | And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges. |
| Misers | A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich. |
| Money | Penny wise, pound foolish. |
| Moon | Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog? |
| Murder | Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer. |
| Names | Call a spade a spade. |
| Nature | See one promontory one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. |
| Opportunity | He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. |
| Pen | From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. |
| Plagiarism | They had their lean books with the fat of others' works. |
| Plagiarism | We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much, he that comes last is commonly best. |
| Pride | They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. |
| Proverbial Phrases | As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face. |
| Proverbs | Believe Robert who has tried it. |
| Proverbs | No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. |
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