The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by John O'Keefe

3 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.— filed under Eating
A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we're all good fellows together.— filed under Goodness
Introductory lines. Sloe. Prunus Spinosa. From the white-blossomed sloe, my dear Chloe requested, A sprig her fair breast to adorn. No! by Heav'n, I exclaim'd, may I perish, If ever I plant in that bosom a thorn. C.— filed under Trees And Plants-Pine
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