John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
Bidpai John Bartlett
1 | |
We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again. 1 | |
Dabschelim and Pilpay. Chap. i. | |
2 | |
It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one. 2 | |
The Greedy and Ambitious Cat. Fable iii. | |
3 | |
There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns. 3 | |
The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi. | |
4 | |
Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,—they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets. | |
The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi. | |
5 | |
Men are used as they use others. | |
The King who became Just. Fable ix. | |
6 | |
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. 4 | |
The Two Fishermen. Fable xiv. | |
7 | |
Guilty consciences always make people cowards. 5 | |
The Prince and his Minister. Chap. iii. Fable iii. | |
8 | |
Whoever … prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain. | |
Ibid. | |
9 | |
There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good. | |
A Religious Doctor. Fable vi. | |
10 | |
There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician. | |
The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii. | |
11 | |
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. 6 | |
The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii. | |
12 | |
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us. | |
Choice of Friends. Chap. iv. | |
13 | |
That possession was the strongest tenure of the law. 7 | |
The Cat and the two Birds. Chap. v. Fable iv. |
Note 1. And with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.—Matthew vii. 2. [back] |
Note 2. See Heywood, Quotation 91. [back] |
Note 3. See Herrick, Quotation 17. [back] |
Note 4. See Heywood, Quotation 122. [back] |
Note 5. See Shakespeare, Hamlet, Quotation 109. [back] |
Note 6. See Butler, Quotation 53. [back] |
Note 7. See Cibber, Quotation 13. [back] |