| Quotes |
Topic |
| Character | She was and is On earth the first, in heaven the second maid. |
| Childhood | The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking. |
| Circumstance | Odd instances of strange coincidence. |
| Content | Happy am I; from care I'm free! Why aren't they all contented like me? |
| Cookery | Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit the Reflection of the old proverb, that though God sends us meat, yet the D------ does cooks. |
| Cookery | Every investigation which is guided by principles of nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach. |
| Courage | "Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate. |
| Crows | Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of pain, two black crows flew out of his mouth and took wing from the room. |
| Crows | To shoot at crows is powder flung away. |
| Death | Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. |
| Death | Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks. |
| Death | Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all. |
| December | If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on you hand a Turquoise blue, Success will bless whate'er you do. |
| Destiny | Truly some men there be That live always in great horrour, And say it goeth by destiny To hang or wed: both hath one hour; And whether it be, I am well sure, Hanging is better of the twain; Sooner done, and shorter pain. |
| Drinking | When treading London's well-known ground If e'er I feel my spirits tire, I haul my sail, look up around, In search of Whitbread's best entire. |
| Drinking | And I wish his soul in heaven may dwell, Who first invented this leathern bottel! |
| Drinking | Drinking will make a man quaff, Quaffing will make a man sing, Singing will make a man laugh, And laughing long life doth bring, Says old Simon the King. |
| Easter | Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day; Who did once upon the cross Suffer to redeem our loss. Hallelujah! |
| End | If the end be well, all will be well. |
| End | It ain't over till it's over. |
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