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"To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance."

"Though it rain daggers with their points downward."

"Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity."

"Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves."

"The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde."

"Out of too much learning become mad."

"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."

"Christ himself was poor... And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor."

"Diogenes struck the father when the son swore."

"are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors."

"Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer."

"I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling."

"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."

"Like the watermen that row one way and look another."

"The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies."

"Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty."

"Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses."

"Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play."

"No rule is so general, which admits not some exception."

"Every man, as the saying is, can tame a shrew but he that hath her."

"Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel."

"Joh. Mayor, in the first book of his "History of Scotland," contends much for the wholesomeness of oaten bread; it was objected to him, then living at Paris, that his countrymen fed on oats and base g…"

"Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs."

"Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not."

"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."

"Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place."

"They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works."

"Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop."

"Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all."

"Going as if he trod upon eggs."

"I light my candle from their torches."

"I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."

"Women wear the breeches."

"Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword."

"As he said in Machiavel, omnes eodem patre nati, Adam's sons, conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked; let us wear theirs and they our clothes,…"

"may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top."

"Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man."

"We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer... Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best."

"A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better."

"Be not solitary, be not idle."

"steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio dæmonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings."

"Many things happen between the cup and the lip."

"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."

"Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards."

"England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes."

"The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill."

"Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes."

"I had a heavy heart and an ugly head, a kind of impostume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of."

"One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague."

"He is only fantastical that is not in fashion."

"And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard."

"Idleness is an appendix to nobility."

"Penny wise, pound foolish."

"Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun."

"The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience."

"Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others."

"Though they write contemptu gloriæ, yet as Hieron observes, they will put their names to their books."

"Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself."

"Birds of a feather will gather together."

"Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons."