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64 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.
Put his shoulder to the wheel. C.— filed under Action
Diverse men have diverse recreations and exercises.— filed under Amusements
Every palace, every city almost hath his peculiar walks, cloisters, terraces, groves, theatres, pageants, games, and several recreations; every country, some professed gymnics to exhilarate their minds and exercise their bodies. BURTON. Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. 2. Sec. 2. Mem. 4. Let them freely feast, sing and dance, have their puppet plays, hobby-horses, tabors, crowds, bag-pipes, etc., play at ball, and barley-breaks, and what sports and recreations they like best.— filed under Amusements
So good things may be abused, and that which was first invented to refresh men's weary spirits.— filed under Amusements
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."— filed under Beggary
Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; *** he had two distinct persons in him. S.— filed under Character
Your father used to come home to my mother, and why may not I be a chippe of the same block out of which you two were cutte? BULLEN'S Old Plays. II. 60. Dick of Devonshire. Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.— filed under Childhood
Subsect. 5. [Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio dæmonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings. C.— filed under Childhood
He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.— filed under Choice
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.— filed under Conscience
'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more as bad in a moment.— filed under Contention
If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. S.— filed under Deceit
The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.— filed under Devil, The
The Furies. [Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies.— filed under Disease
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?— filed under Example
He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.— filed under Fashion
As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.— filed under Festivities
France. I would help others out of a fellow-feeling. C— filed under Help
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.— filed under Idleness
A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.— filed under Insanity
France. Out of too much learning become mad.— filed under Learning
For I light my candle from their torches.— filed under Light
And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator.— filed under Love
Subsec. 7. No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.— filed under Love
Women wear the breeches.— filed under Matrimony
All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so damn'd as melancholy. S.— filed under Melancholy
Melancholy. All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy.— filed under Melancholy
Go then merrily to Heaven.— filed under Merriment
The country hath his recreations, the city his several gymnics and exercises, May games, feasts, wakes and merry meetings to solace themselves.— filed under Merriment
And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.— filed under Misers
Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog?— filed under Monuments
Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.— filed under Murder
See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.— filed under Nature
The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.— filed under Obedience
OCCUPATIONS-CULINARY. 431 Culinary. Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit the Reflection of the old proverb, that though God sends us meat, yet the D- does cooks. The Cooks' and Confectioners' Dictionary, or the Accomplished Housewife's Companions. London. 1724. Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.— filed under Occupations-Cabinet-Making
America. *** Our wrangling lawyers * are SO litiare so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them, in hell.— filed under Occupations-Law
He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.— filed under Xvii
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.— filed under Plagiarism
We can say nothing but what hath been said, *** Our poets steal from Homer *** Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.— filed under Plagiarism
Present Discontents. Like Æsop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.— filed under Policy
Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.— filed under Archimedes
They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. S.— filed under Pride
jj. Act V. Sc. 1. All our geese are swans. kk.— filed under Proverbs
All places are distant from heaven alike.— filed under Proverbs
P. 252 As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.— filed under Proverbs
Birds of a feather will gather together.— filed under Proverbs
Build castles in the air.— filed under Proverbs
Comparisons are odious.— filed under Proverbs
England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.— filed under Proverbs
Delayed Retribution. Going as if he trod upon eggs.— filed under Proverbs
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.— filed under Proverbs
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard. bb.— filed under Proverbs
aa. Make a virtue of necessity. bb.— filed under Proverbs
Matches are made in heaven. ii.— filed under Proverbs
Penny wise, pound foolish.— filed under Proverbs
Letter 71. Seize time by the forelock. PITTACUS, of Mytilene. ee. Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. ff.— filed under Proverbs
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.— filed under Libanius
The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.— filed under Iii
Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel. bb.— filed under Alexander Severus
One religion is as true as another.— filed under Xxv
A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.— filed under Shame
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together.— filed under Temptation
Manners of the Present Age. Ch. IV. Aristotle said * * * melancholy men of all others are most witty.— filed under Wit
Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.— filed under Worship