John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 625 |
| I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 626 |
| Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 627 |
| There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 628 |
| I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 629 |
| I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 630 |
| Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 631 |
| Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 632 |
| In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way, with more advised watch, To find the other forth; and by adventuring both, I oft found both. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 633 |
| They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 634 |
| Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 635 |
| If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. 1 |
| The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| Note 1. For the good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.—Romans vii. 19. [back] |