| Quotes |
Topic |
| Learning | And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by Algebra. |
| Learning | In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale. |
| Apparel | And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days, On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear?" |
| Proverbs | Smell a rat. |
| Proverbs | I'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur. |
| Proverbs | Which he by hook or crook has gather'd And by his own inventions father'd. |
| Linguists | Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak, That Latin was no more difficile That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. |
| Linguists | A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect. |
| Linguists | For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious, To smatter French is meritorious. - Samuel Butler , |
| Lying | Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat, Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate. |
| Matrimony | 'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin, And therefore no true saint allows, They shall be suffer'd to espouse. |
| Medicine | 'Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er, To try one desp'rate med'cine more, For where your case can be no worse, The desp'rat'st is the wisest course. |
| Medicine | Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore, For by his side a pouch he wore, Replete with strange hermetic powder That wounds nine miles point-blank would solder. |
| Mind | Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished. |
| Money | Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling. |
| Money | Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp. |
| Moon | The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight That's both her lustre and her shade, And in the lantern of the night, With shining horns hung out her light. |
| Moon | He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no, That would, as soon as e'er she shone straight, Whether 'twere day or night demonstrate, Tell what her d'ameter to an inch is, And prove that she's not made of green cheese. |
| Music | Her voice, the music of the spheres, So loud, it deafens mortals' ears, As wise philosophers have thought, And that's the cause we hear it not. |
| Music | For discords make the sweetest airs. |
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