John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Jonathan Swift. (1667–1745) (continued) |
| 3164 |
| Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. |
| 3165 |
| She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. |
| 3166 |
| Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. |
| 3167 |
| They say a carpenter ’s known by his chips. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. |
| 3168 |
| The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. 1 |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. |
| 3169 |
| I ’ll give you leave to call me anything, if you don’t call me “spade.” |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. |
| 3170 |
| May you live all the days of your life. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. |
| 3171 |
| I have fed like a farmer: I shall grow as fat as a porpoise. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. |
| 3172 |
| I always like to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the Church to preserve all that travel by land or by water. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. |
| 3173 |
| I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. |
| 3174 |
| I thought you and he were hand-in-glove. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii. |
| 3175 |
| ’T is happy for him that his father was before him. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii. |
| 3176 |
| There is none so blind as they that won’t see. 2 |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii. |
| 3177 |
| She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii. |
| 3178 |
| She pays him in his own coin. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii. |
| 3179 |
| There was all the world and his wife. |
| Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii. |
| Note 1. Use three physicians Still: first, Dr. Quiet; Next, Dr. Merryman, And Dr. Dyet. Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum (edition 1607) [back] |
| Note 2. See Mathew Henry, Quotation 15. [back] |