She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
This is every cook’s opinion – no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.
In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
Come, agree, the law’s costly.
She ’s no chicken; she ’s on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
I’ve often wish’d that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden’s end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.