LOVE: Love is too young to know what conscience is.

HOPE: The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.

PAST: What's past is prologue.

DYING: He that dies pays all debts.

OLD AGE: My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

PERFECTION: Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

POETRY: Not marble nor the gilded monuments of princes shall outline this powerful rhyme.

SORROW: When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions.

MADNESS: O what a noble mind is here o'er thrown!

PLAY: If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.

*ARGUMENT: The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

*LOYALTY: Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He wouldn't in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.

BEAUTY: To me, fair friend, you never can be old for as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still.

PRAISE: I will praise any man that will praise me.

PHILOSOPHERS: For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.

VICTIMS: I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

OPPORTUNITY: How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!

*SIN: Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

COOKING: 'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

* COSMETICS: God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

SELF -CONTROL: O, it is excellent to have a giants strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

POLLUTION: I durst not laugh for fear of opening by lips and receiving the bad air.

*GUILT: I had the most need of blessing, and "Amen" stuck in my throat.

LIFE AND LIVING: It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

JURIES: The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

*TEMPTATION: O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

*WINE: O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

POLITICIANS: Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

ELECTIONS: There's small choice in rotten apples.

GREATNESS: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon'em.

OBESITY: Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

CAUTION: It is a bright day that brings forth the adder, and that causes wary walking.

EXCUSES: And often times excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worser by the excuse.

ALCOHOL: O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!

FATHERS: It is a wise father that knows his own child.

LOVE: Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better. (From Deana...thank you.)

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