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A mask of gold hides all deformities. - [Gold] Age is like love, it cannot be hid. - [Age] An oath! why, it is the traffic of the soul, it is law within a man; the seal of faith, the bond of every conscience; unto whom we set our thoughts like hands. - [Oaths] Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them. - [Argument] God doth bestow that garment, when we die, that, like a soft and silken canopy, is still spread over us. In spite of death, our hair grows in the grave; and that alone looks fresh when all our other beauty's gone. - [Hair] Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world; The health, the soul, the beauty most divine; A mask of gold hides all deformities; Gold is heaven's physic, life's restorative. - [Gold] If thou kiss Wisdom's cheek and make her thine, she will breathe into thy lips divinity, and thou, like Phoebus, shalt speak oracle. - [Wisdom] Patience! why, it is the soul of peace; of all the virtues, it is nearest kin to heaven; it makes men look like gods. The best of men that ever wore earth about him was a sufferer,--a soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; the first true gentleman that ever breathed. - [Patience] Patience, my lord! why 't is the soul of peace: Of all the virtues 't is the nearest kin to heaven; It makes men look like gods: the best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd. - [Patience] Prince I am not, yet I am nobly born. - [Birth] The best of men that ever wore earth about Him was a sufferer, a soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; the first true gentleman that ever breathed. - [Christ] The robe which curious Nature weaves to hang upon the head. - [Hair] The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maidens' souls are such. - [Chastity] There's a lean fellow beats all conquerors. - [Victory] Turn over a new leaf. - [Proverbial Phrases] When all sins are old in us, and go upon crutches, covetousness does but then lie in her cradle. - [Covetousness] When all the sins are old in us, And go upon crutches, covetousness Does but lie in her cradle. - [Avarice] Were there no women, men might live like gods. - Honest Whore (pt. I, act III, sc. 1) [Women] There's no music when a woman is in the concert. - Honest Whore (pt. II, act IV, sc. 3) [Women] And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds, There's a lean fellow beats all conquerors. - Old Fortunatus (act I, sc. 1) [Death] Add to golden numbers golden numbers. - Patient Grissell (act I, sc. 1) [Proverbial Phrases] Honest labor bears a lovely face. - Patient Grissell (act I, sc. 1) [Labor] Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise. - The Comedy of Patient Grissel [Sleep] The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed. - The Honest Whore (pt. I, act I, sc. 2) [Gentlemen] The great fishpond (the sea). - The Honest Whore (pt. I, act I, sc. 2) [Sea : Ocean : Fish] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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