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| I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. | | Uncategorized | |
| I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself | | Uncategorized | |
| I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy. | | Uncategorized | |
| Idleness is an appendix to nobility | | Idleness | |
| If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart | | Heart | |
| Italy, a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes | | Uncategorized | |
| Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs | | Uncategorized | |
| Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. | | Uncategorized | |
| Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy | | Melancholy; Music | |
| Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven | | Destiny | |
| Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full of silence and irksome solitariness | | Love; Lovers | |
| No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread | | Love | |
| No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. | | Uncategorized | |
| Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. | | Uncategorized | |
| One religion is as true as another | | Religion | |
| One was never married and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague | | Marriage | |
| Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' cases hereafter, some of them in hell | | Law and lawyers | |
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