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A light heart lives long. - [Cheerfulness] A light wife doth make a heavy husband. - [Marriage] A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing; for there is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living. - [Lions] A lioness with udders all drawn dry, Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch, When that the sleeping man should stir; for 'tis The royal disposition of that beast To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead. - [Lions] A little snow, tumbled about, anon becomes a mountain. - [Snow] A long-tongued, babbling gossip. - [Gossip] A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. - [Eyes] A maid That paragons description and wild fame; One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, And in the essential vesture of creation Does tire the ingener. - [Women] A maiden hath no tongue--but thought. - [Maidenhood] A maiden never bold; of spirit so still and quiet that her motion blushed at herself. - [Maidenhood] A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. - [Taste] A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain. - [Appearance] A man that fortune's buffets and rewards hast ta'en with equal thanks. - [Resignation : Reverses] A man's life's no more than to say, One! - [Life] A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal: His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest. - [Mirth] A merry heart goes all the day, A sad tires in a mile. - [Cheerfulness] A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder. - [Grief : Sadness] A red morn that ever yet betoken'd Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gust and foul flaws to herdsmen and to herds. - [Storms] A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigged, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats Instinctively have quit it. - [Ships] A rotten cause abides no handling. - [Cause] A smile recures the wounding of a frown. - [Smiles] A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. - [Trifles] A soldier seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth. - [Soldiers] A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, Uncapable of pity, void and empty From any dram of mercy. - [Cruelty] A surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. - [Eating : Excess] Displaying page 2 of 187 for this author: << Prev 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
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