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Mind your P's and Q's. - Unattributed Author, possibly from the old custom of hanging a slate in a tavern with P and Q (for pints and quarts) under which were written customers names and ticks for the number of P's and Q's There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know that they know; and those who know that they know. - Unattributed Author, rendering of an Arab proverb Wode has erys, felde has sigt. - Unattributed Author, King Edward and the Shepherd, a manuscript (circa 1300) The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking. - Unattributed Author, Old Nursery Rhyme The man that heweth over high, Some chip falleth in his eye. - Unattributed Author, Story of Sir Eglamour of Artois, an English romantic story circa 1350, from a manuscript in the Garrick Collection Snug as a bug in a rug. - Unattributed Author, The Stratford Jubilee (II, 1, 1779), also in letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley The woman that deliberates is lost. - Joseph Addison A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world. - Joseph Addison, Sir Roger on the Bench When you are at Rome, live as Romans live. - Saint Ambrose A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men. - Anonymous Handsome enough is good enough. [Lat., Sat pulchra, si sat bona.] - Anonymous There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.] - Anonymous, "The World of Mathematics" edited by J.R. Newman (p. 1452) Let the cobbler stick to his last. - Apelles, (Latin) Good Americans when they die go to Paris. - attributed to Thomas Gold Appleton, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. in "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table", VI Man proposes, and God disposes. [It., Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.] - Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (ch. XLVI, 35) Money makes the man. - Aristodemus, see Alcaeus, "Fragment--Miscellaneous--Songs" One swallow does not make spring. - Aristotle, Ethic--Nicom (bk. I) A friend is a second self. - Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Custom is second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.] - Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo) Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. - Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo) Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns. - Decimus Magnus Ausonius If you are dreaded by many then beware of many. - Decimus Magnus Ausonius It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large. - Decimus Magnus Ausonius Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made. - Decimus Magnus Ausonius No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime. - Decimus Magnus Ausonius One day unfolds it and one day destroys. - Decimus Magnus Ausonius A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon Knowledge is power. - Francis Bacon, paraphrase, sometimes attributed to Thomas Hobbes Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner. - Francis Bacon The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. - Francis Bacon The folly of one man is the fortune of another. - Francis Bacon, Of Fortune The remedy is worse than the disease. - Francis Bacon, Of Seditions He won't, won't he? Then bring me my boots. - Richard Harris Barham One picture is worth ten thousand words. - Frederick R. Barnard, Printer's Ink Absence makes the heart grow fonder; Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! - Thomas Haynes Bayly (Bayley), Isle of Beauty, phrase first found in anonymous poem within F. Davison's Poetical Rhapsody (1602) He went away with a flea in 's ear. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher There is a method in man's wickedness: It grows up by degrees. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher There is no jesting with edge tools. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher 'Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher What mare's nest hast thou found? - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Bonduca (IV, 2) Hit the nail on the head. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Love's Cure (act II, sc. 1) Thou will scare be a man before thy mother. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Love's Cure (act II, sc. 2) I'll put a spoke among your wheels. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Mad Lover (III, 5) After supper walk a mile. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Philaster (II, 4) I'll have a fling. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (III, 5) He comes not in my books. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Widow Whistle, and she'll come to you. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Wit without Money (act IV, sc. 4) Let the world slide. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Wit Without Money (act V, sc. 2) Oil on troubled waters. - Bede "The Venerable" Go to Jericho. Let them all go to Jericho, And ne'er be seen againe. - Sir John Berkenhead, Mercurius Aulicus, quoted in the "Athenoeum", Nov. 14, 1874 Displaying page 1 of 414 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414
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