| Quotes |
Topic |
| Talk | With vollies of eternal babble. |
| Trout | And though it be a two-foot trout, 'Tis with a single hair pulled out. |
| Trout | For trouts are tickled best in muddy water. |
| Truth | For truth is precious and divine, Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. |
| Truth | 'Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter. |
| Will | He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still, Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best known. |
| Wit | We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it, As being loth to wear it out, And therefore bore it not about, Unless on holy days or so, As men their best apparel do. |
| Wit | Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights. |
| Wooing | He that will win his dame must do As love does when he draws his bow, With one hand thrust the lady from, And with the other pull her home. |
| Wooing | She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon, And what men say of her they mean No more than on the thing they lean. |
| Work | And still be doing, never done. |
| Worth | 'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call, For what is worth, in anything, But so much money as 't will bring? |
| Worth | This was the penn'worth of his thought. |
| Wounds | H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort. |
| Zeal | For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant. |
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