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A carpenter's known by his chips. - Polite Conversation (dialogue II) [Carpentry] Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. - Polite Conversation (dialogue II) [Conceit] He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. - Polite Conversation (dialogue II) [Oysters : Proverbs] I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water. - Polite Conversation (dialogue II) [Traveling] I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. - Polite Conversation (dialogue II) [Rain] I thought you and he were hand-in-glove. - Polite Conversation (dialogue II) [Friendship] I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home. - Polite Conversation (dialogue II) [Cows] I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade. - Polite Conversation (dialogue II) [Names] Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. - Polite Conversation (dialogue II) [Kisses] Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise. - Polite Conversation (dialogue II) [Eating] May you live all the days of your life. - Polite Conversation (dialogue II) [Toasts] She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body. - Polite Conversation (dialogue II) [Goodness] They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. - Polite Conversation (dialogue II) [Eating] They say fish should swim thrice . . . first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?), then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret. - Polite Conversation (dialogue II) [Fish] You must take the will for the deed. - Polite Conversation (dialogue II) [Deeds] She pays him in his own coin. - Polite Conversation (dialogue III) [Retaliation] There was all the world and his wife. - Polite Conversation (dialogue III) [World] There's none so blind as they that won't see. - Polite Conversation (dialogue III) [Blindness] There's two words to that bargain. - Polite Conversation (dialogue III) [Business] 'Tis happy for him that his father was born before him. - Polite Conversation (dialogue III) [Ancestry] 'Tis nothing when you are used to it. - Polite Conversation (dialogue III) [Custom] I shall be like that tree,--I shall die at the top. - Scott's Life of Swift [Decay] Bread is the staff of life. - Tale of a Tub [Eating : Proverbs] He made it a part of his religion, never to say grace to his meat. - Tale of a Tub (sec. XI) [Religion] It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first. - Tale of a Tub--Dedication [Worth] Displaying page 11 of 12 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [11] 12
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