| Quotes |
Topic |
| Prejudice | A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. |
| Proverbs | An inch in missing is as bad as an ell. |
| Proverbs | All those must such delights expect to share, Who for their friend think fit to take a bear. |
| Proverbs | Out of mind, when out of view. |
| Proverbs | Those, who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. |
| Proverbs | When yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another? |
| Proverbs | Who dainties love shall beggars prove. |
| General Proverbs | Much matter decocted into few words. |
| Religion | Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after. |
| Repentance | Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. |
| Resignation | Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell. |
| Ridicule | Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches! |
| Sin | He that falls into sin is a man, that grieves at it, is a saint, that boasts of it, is a devil. |
| Sin | Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. |
| Sin | He that falls into sin is a man, that grieves at it, is a saint, that boasteth of it, is a devil. |
| Travel | Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. |
| Traveling | Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. |
| Treason | Rebellion must be managed with many swords, treason to his prince's person may be with one knife. |
| Truth | Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. |
| Unhappiness | No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. |
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