"I love him not
But show no reason can
Wherefore, but this
I do not love the man."
"Man has his wit, but woman has her way."
"Of all the plagues with which the world is curs'd
Of every will, a woman is the worst."
"Who ran to help me when I fell
And would some pretty story tell
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother."
"A place for everything, and everything in its place."
"Where is the man
Who has the power and the skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will?
For if she will, she will
You may depend on't
And if she won't she won't
So there's an end on't."
"The fault is great in man or woman
Who steals a goose from off a common
But what can please that man's excuse
Who steals a common from a goose?"
"I should think myself a very bad woman if I had done what I do for a farthing less."
"The cook was a good cook, as cooks go, and as cooks go, she went."
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Quotable Quotes - Royalty
"Everyone likes flattery - and when you come to royalty, you should lay it on with a trowel."
"Most gracious Queen, we thee implore
To go away and sin no more
But if that effort be too great
To go away at any rate."
"At all the feasts where ale was strongest
Sat the Merry Monarch longest
First to come and last to go."
"Most gracious Queen, we thee implore
To go away and sin no more
But if that effort be too great
To go away at any rate."
"At all the feasts where ale was strongest
Sat the Merry Monarch longest
First to come and last to go."
Quotable Quotes - Rhyme
"Glories, like glow worms
Afar off shine bright
But looked to near
Have neither heat nor light."
"But liars we can never trust
'Tho they should speak the thing that's true
And he that does one fault at first
And his, to hide it, makes it two."
"Question not but live and labour
'Til your goal be won
Helping every feeble neighbour
Seeking help from none.
Life is mostly froth and bubble
Two things stand alone
Kindness in another's trouble
Courage in your own."
"When lonely woman stoops to folly
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy
What art can wash her guilt away?
The only art her guilt to cover
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentence to her lover
And wring his bosom - is to die."
"Oh, don't the days seem dark and long
When all goes right and nothing goes wrong?
And isn't your life extremely flat
With nothing whatever to grumble at?"
"So he sighed and pined and ogled
And his passion boiled and bubbled
'Til he blew his silly brains out
And no more was it troubled."
"What is this life, if full of care
We have no time to stand and stare."
"Come in the evening
Or come in the morning
Come when you're looked for
Or come without warning."
"There was a young lady of Kent
Who said she knew what it meant
When men asked her to dine
Gave her cocktails and wine,
She knew what it meant
But she went."
"There was a young lady of Riga
Who rode with a smile, on a tiger.
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside
And the smile on the face of the tiger."
"My love in her attire doth show her wit
It doth so will become her
For every season she hath dressings fit
For winter, spring or summer.
No beauty doth she miss
When all her clothes are on
But beautys' self she is
When all her robes are gone."
"It's good to be merry and wise
It's good to be honest and true
It's best to be off with the old
Before you go on with the new."
"I slept and dreamed that life was beauty
I woke and found that life was duty."
"I feel no pain, dear Mother, now
But oh, I am so dry!
O take me to a brewery
And leave me there to die."
"Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a hunting
For fear of little men."
"Who loves not woman and song
Remains a fool, his whole life long."
"Backward, turn backward,
O time in your flight
Make me a child again
Just for tonight."
"Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close
Something attempted, something done
Has earned a nights' repose."
"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read
With loads of learned timber in his head."
"Get place and wealth
If possible, with grace.
If not, by any means
Get wealth and place."
"The learn'd is happy, nature to explore
The fool is happy that he knows no more."
"Such laboured nothings
In so strange a style
Amaze the unlearned
And make the learned smile."
"True wit, is nature to advantage dressed.
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed."
"Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is
Nor e'er shall be."
"See the happy moron
He doesn't give a damn.
I wish I were a moron.
My God! Perhaps I am."
"Auntie did you feel no pain
Falling from that apple tree?
Would you do it, please again
'Cos my friend here didn't see?"
"'There's been an accident,' they said.
'Your servant's cut in half. She's dead.'
'Indeed,' said Mr. Jones, 'and please
Send me the half that's got my keys.'"
"She was poor but she was honest
And her parents were the same
'Til she met a city feller,
And she lost her honest name."
"If all be true that I do think
There are five reasons we should drink.
Good wine, a friend, on being dry
Or lest we should be bye and bye
Or any other reason why."
"If you your lips would keep from slips
Of five things have a care
To whom you speak, of whom you speak
And how, and when and where."
"It's not the one who knows the most
Who has the most to say.
It's not the one who has the most
That gives the most away."
Afar off shine bright
But looked to near
Have neither heat nor light."
"But liars we can never trust
'Tho they should speak the thing that's true
And he that does one fault at first
And his, to hide it, makes it two."
"Question not but live and labour
'Til your goal be won
Helping every feeble neighbour
Seeking help from none.
Life is mostly froth and bubble
Two things stand alone
Kindness in another's trouble
Courage in your own."
"When lonely woman stoops to folly
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy
What art can wash her guilt away?
The only art her guilt to cover
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentence to her lover
And wring his bosom - is to die."
"Oh, don't the days seem dark and long
When all goes right and nothing goes wrong?
And isn't your life extremely flat
With nothing whatever to grumble at?"
"So he sighed and pined and ogled
And his passion boiled and bubbled
'Til he blew his silly brains out
And no more was it troubled."
"What is this life, if full of care
We have no time to stand and stare."
"Come in the evening
Or come in the morning
Come when you're looked for
Or come without warning."
"There was a young lady of Kent
Who said she knew what it meant
When men asked her to dine
Gave her cocktails and wine,
She knew what it meant
But she went."
"There was a young lady of Riga
Who rode with a smile, on a tiger.
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside
And the smile on the face of the tiger."
"My love in her attire doth show her wit
It doth so will become her
For every season she hath dressings fit
For winter, spring or summer.
No beauty doth she miss
When all her clothes are on
But beautys' self she is
When all her robes are gone."
"It's good to be merry and wise
It's good to be honest and true
It's best to be off with the old
Before you go on with the new."
"I slept and dreamed that life was beauty
I woke and found that life was duty."
"I feel no pain, dear Mother, now
But oh, I am so dry!
O take me to a brewery
And leave me there to die."
"Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a hunting
For fear of little men."
"Who loves not woman and song
Remains a fool, his whole life long."
"Backward, turn backward,
O time in your flight
Make me a child again
Just for tonight."
"Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close
Something attempted, something done
Has earned a nights' repose."
"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read
With loads of learned timber in his head."
"Get place and wealth
If possible, with grace.
If not, by any means
Get wealth and place."
"The learn'd is happy, nature to explore
The fool is happy that he knows no more."
"Such laboured nothings
In so strange a style
Amaze the unlearned
And make the learned smile."
"True wit, is nature to advantage dressed.
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed."
"Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is
Nor e'er shall be."
"See the happy moron
He doesn't give a damn.
I wish I were a moron.
My God! Perhaps I am."
"Auntie did you feel no pain
Falling from that apple tree?
Would you do it, please again
'Cos my friend here didn't see?"
"'There's been an accident,' they said.
'Your servant's cut in half. She's dead.'
'Indeed,' said Mr. Jones, 'and please
Send me the half that's got my keys.'"
"She was poor but she was honest
And her parents were the same
'Til she met a city feller,
And she lost her honest name."
"If all be true that I do think
There are five reasons we should drink.
Good wine, a friend, on being dry
Or lest we should be bye and bye
Or any other reason why."
"If you your lips would keep from slips
Of five things have a care
To whom you speak, of whom you speak
And how, and when and where."
"It's not the one who knows the most
Who has the most to say.
It's not the one who has the most
That gives the most away."
Friday, January 7, 2011
Quotable Quotes - Religion
"'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so bad. Every man of every nation has done that. 'Tis the living up to it that is difficult."
"If you become a nun dear
A friar I will be
In any case you run dear
Pray look behind for me."
"Wherever God exacts a house of prayer
The devil always builds a chapel there
And 'twill be found, upon examination
The latter has the largest congregation."
"The best of men cannot suspend their fate
The good die early and the bad die late."
"In their religion they are so uneven
That each man goes his own by-way to heaven."
"If ever I ate a good supper at night
I dreamt of the devil, and woke in a fright."
"Nothing can be created out of nothing."
"God'll send the bill to you."
"By night, an atheist half believes in God."
"Scratch the Christian and you find the Pagan - spoiled."
"If you become a nun dear
A friar I will be
In any case you run dear
Pray look behind for me."
"Wherever God exacts a house of prayer
The devil always builds a chapel there
And 'twill be found, upon examination
The latter has the largest congregation."
"The best of men cannot suspend their fate
The good die early and the bad die late."
"In their religion they are so uneven
That each man goes his own by-way to heaven."
"If ever I ate a good supper at night
I dreamt of the devil, and woke in a fright."
"Nothing can be created out of nothing."
"God'll send the bill to you."
"By night, an atheist half believes in God."
"Scratch the Christian and you find the Pagan - spoiled."
Quotable Quotes - Philosophical
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me, the idea of getting rid of it truly breaks my heart."
"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime."
"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful than to be forty years old."
"There is so much good in the worst of us
And so much bad in the best of us
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us."
"Thank goodness the sun has gone in and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."
"He who mainly admires mean things is a snob."
"I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence."
"A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing."
"Knowledge is power. To believe without understanding is the act of mental bankrupt."
"But words, once spoke, can never be recalled."
"Judge not the play before the play be done."
"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
"Skill comes so slow
And life so fast doth fly
We learn so little
And forget so much."
"Everything passes, everything perishes, everything pales."
"Times change, and we change with them."
"Every minute dies a man, and one and one-sixteenth is born."
"The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice."
"The night hath a thousand eyes."
"He more had pleased us had he pleased us less."
"Before man made us citizens
Great nature made us men."
"In this world a man must be either anvil or hammer."
"I don't believe in principle, but O, I do believe in interest."
"He earns whate'er he can
And looks the whole world in his face
For he owes not any man."
"In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse."
"Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing
Onward through life they go."
"Still pleased to teach
And yet not proud to know."
"A little learning is a dangerous thing."
"One murder makes a villain, millions, a hero."
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of none."
"Laugh at all you troubled at before."
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me, the idea of getting rid of it truly breaks my heart."
"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime."
"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful than to be forty years old."
"There is so much good in the worst of us
And so much bad in the best of us
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us."
"Thank goodness the sun has gone in and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."
"He who mainly admires mean things is a snob."
"I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence."
"A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing."
"Knowledge is power. To believe without understanding is the act of mental bankrupt."
"But words, once spoke, can never be recalled."
"Judge not the play before the play be done."
"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
"Skill comes so slow
And life so fast doth fly
We learn so little
And forget so much."
"Everything passes, everything perishes, everything pales."
"Times change, and we change with them."
"Every minute dies a man, and one and one-sixteenth is born."
"The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice."
"The night hath a thousand eyes."
"He more had pleased us had he pleased us less."
"Before man made us citizens
Great nature made us men."
"In this world a man must be either anvil or hammer."
"I don't believe in principle, but O, I do believe in interest."
"He earns whate'er he can
And looks the whole world in his face
For he owes not any man."
"In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse."
"Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing
Onward through life they go."
"Still pleased to teach
And yet not proud to know."
"A little learning is a dangerous thing."
"One murder makes a villain, millions, a hero."
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of none."
"Laugh at all you troubled at before."
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
Quotable Quotes - Love
"Love is like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life."
"Love is like the measles - we all have to go through it."
"I love everything that's old: olde friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."
"Time was when love and I were well acquainted."
"Great thoughts come from the heart."
"'Tis strange what a man may do and a woman yet think him an angel."
"It's love, it's love, that makes the world go 'round."
"The western custom is to have but one wife...and hardly any mistresses."
"Love is like the measles - we all have to go through it."
"I love everything that's old: olde friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."
"Time was when love and I were well acquainted."
"Great thoughts come from the heart."
"'Tis strange what a man may do and a woman yet think him an angel."
"It's love, it's love, that makes the world go 'round."
"The western custom is to have but one wife...and hardly any mistresses."
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Quotable Quotes - Humour
"Cheer up, the worst is yet to come."
"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."
"But then everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died and they came down on him for the funeral expenses."
"Life is just one damned thing after another."
"Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith."
"He speaks to me as if I was a public meeting."
"The almighty dollar is the only object of worship."
"He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."
"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."
"But then everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died and they came down on him for the funeral expenses."
"Life is just one damned thing after another."
"Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith."
"He speaks to me as if I was a public meeting."
"The almighty dollar is the only object of worship."
"He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."
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