John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 759 |
| I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. |
| As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| 760 |
| I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola. |
| As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| 761 |
| I ’ll warrant him heart-whole. |
| As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| 762 |
| Good orators, when they are out, they will spit. |
| As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| 763 |
| Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,—but not for love. |
| As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| 764 |
| Can one desire too much of a good thing? 1 |
| As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| 765 |
| For ever and a day. |
| As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| 766 |
| Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. |
| As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| 767 |
| The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. |
| As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 2. |
| 768 |
| Chewing the food 2 of sweet and bitter fancy. |
| As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 3. |
| 769 |
| It is meat and drink to me. |
| As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1. |
| 770 |
| “So so” is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so. |
| As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1. |
| 771 |
| The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. |
| As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1. |
| 772 |
| I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. |
| As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1. |
| 773 |
| No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy. |
| As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2. |
| 774 |
| How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes! |
| As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2. |
| 775 |
| Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. |
| As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4. |
| Note 1. Too much of a good thing.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part i. book i. chap. vi. [back] |
| Note 2. ”Cud” in Dyce and Staunton. [back] |