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Chilo: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

We that live to please must please to live.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Prologue on Opening

the Drury Lane Theatre. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.— EARL OF CHESTERFIELD — Letters.

March 10, 1746. What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly. Attributed to ISOCRATES by ALAIN— RENÉ LE SAGE — Gil Blas. Bk. VIII. Ch. IX.

What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.— GOETHE — Herman and Dorothea. Canto III. L. 3.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for a gander.— TOM BROWN — New Maxims. P. 123.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.— DAN'L WEBSTER — Quoted by him in a

Speech. Sept. 1, 1848. What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.— PLAUTUS — Trinummus. Act II. Sc. 2.

Riley's trans. What mare's nest hast thou found?— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Bonduca. Act V. Sc. 2.

What's done cannot be undone.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 75.

What's one man's poison, signior, Is another's meat or drink.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Love's Cure. Act III. Sc. 2.

What will Mrs. Grundy say?— THOS. MORTON — Speed the Plough. Act I. Sc. 1. Ed. 1808.