| Quotes |
Topic |
| Wealth | A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches. |
| Women | Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't, so there's an end on't. |
| Women | Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art. |
| Women | What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire. What lighter than a fire? A woman. What lighter than a woman? Nothing. |
| Women | I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take, Or else I doubt if Nature could So fair a creature make. |
| Women | It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the cock is silent. |
| Women | The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone, I wish to have none other books To read or look upon. |
| Words | That blessed word Mesopotamia. |
| Words | He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods. |
| Words | The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting. |
| Work | How bething the, gentliman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span. |
| World | This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in, But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own, It is the worst world that ever was known. |
| World | Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong. |
| Wrens | Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back. |
| Wrens | And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce. |
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