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9 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.
The fesant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.— filed under Birds-Pelican
O hour, of all hours, the most bless'd upon earth, The blesséd hour of our dinners! OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)- Lucile. Pt. I. Canto II. St. 23. We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, -what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope, -what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining? OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)- Lucile. Pt. I. Canto II. St. 24. Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.— filed under Eating
FLOWERS-COWSLIP. 225 Convolvulus. Convolvulus. There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i. e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, which carrieth a flower not unlike to this Lilly, save that it yeeldeth no smell nor hath those chives within; for whitenesse they resemble one another very much, as if Nature in making this floure were a learning and trying her skill how to frame the Lilly indeed.— filed under Flowers-Clover
As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.— filed under Fruits
Consolation. And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.— filed under Occupations-Navigation
The first (barbers) that entered Italy came out of Sicily and it was in the 454 yeare after the foundation of Rome. Brought in they were by P. Ticinius Mena as Varra doth report for before that time they never cut their hair. The first that was shaven every day was Scipio Africanus, and after him cometh Augustus the Emperor who evermore used the rasor.— filed under Occupations-Tobacconists
All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of reported, they will no better abide the touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them: but if it happen to light within their chawes or mouth, especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present death.— filed under Policy
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?— filed under Sweetness
Appendix, Letter VII. It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.— filed under Wine And Spirits