 But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest. |
| Shadow owes its birth to light. |
| No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat. |
| On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends. |
| The brave love mercy, and delight to save. |
| A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. |
| Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. |
| There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self. |
| Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. |
| Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand. |
| But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out. |
| We only part to meet again. |
| I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them. |
| An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. |
| Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. |
| The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. |
| What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us. |
| O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on. |
| She who has never loved has never lived. |
| Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives. |
