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Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. Diary 25 December 1665 delight we married people have poor fools decoyed decoyed into our condition In the heighth of it [the plague]…bold people there were to go in sport to one another's burials. And in spite to well people, would breathe in the faces…of well people going by. Diary 12 February 1666 breathe in the faces breathe in the faces faces of people going by Music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is. Diary 9 March 1666 music ...
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) Quick reference
Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...your fill: Walk sober off; before a sprightlier age Comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage. Imitations of Horace (1737) bk. 2, epistle 2 The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Imitations of Horace bk. 2, Satire 1 (1734) l. 128 feast of reason feast of reason flow of soul For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. Imitations of Horace bk. 2, Satire 2 (1734) l. 159; Pope's translation of The Odyssey (1725–6) bk. 15, l. 84, has ‘Speed the parting guest’ speed the parting guest Speed the parting ...
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...Epistle 1 (1737) l. 304; see shakespeare many -headed monster many-headed monster monster of the pit The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Imitations of Horace Horace bk. 2, Satire 1 (1734) l. 128 feast of reason feast of reason flow of soul For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. Imitations of Horace Horace bk. 2, Satire 2 (1734) l. 159; ‘Speed the parting guest’ in Pope's translation of The Odyssey (1725–6) bk. 15, l. 84 welcome the coming speed the going guest speed the going guest speed the...
Gertrude Stein (18741946) Reference library
Brewer's Famous Quotations
...Rises (1926) and referred to it again in A Moveable Feast (1964). I would guess, however, that the phrase is now more often used to refer to the large number of promising young men who lost their lives in the First World War rather than, as in Stein's context, to those who were not killed in the war but who survived to become part of a generation that was thought to have lost its values. John Keegan's The First World War (1998) begins by analysing the casualties and says of the small percentages of national populations killed or wounded: ‘Even those...
Marriage Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (5 ed.)
...than the dinner. Charles Caleb Colton 1780 – 1832 English clergyman and writer : Lacon (1822) marriage is a feast grace is sometimes better better than the dinner Tho' marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools. William Congreve 1670 – 1729 English dramatist : The Double Dealer (1694) makes man and wife one flesh leaves 'em still two fools sharper : Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure: Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. setter : Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure...
John Dryden (1631–1700) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...as the few Never was patriot yet, but was a fool. Absalom and Achitophel (1681) pt. 1, l. 968 patriot yet, but was a fool patriot yet, but was a fool Beware the fury of a patient man. Absalom and Achitophel (1681) pt. 1, l. 1005 fury of a patient man fury of a patient man Happy, happy, happy, pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair. Alexander's Feast (1697) l. 4; see proverbs None but the brave deserves the fair Sweet is pleasure after pain. Alexander's Feast (1697) l. 57 pleasure after pain pleasure...
Proverbs Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...and guests stink A fool and his money are soon parted. late 16th century fool and his money fool and his money A fool at forty is a fool indeed. early 18th century, from young ; see young fool at forty fool at forty A fool may give a wise man counsel. mid 14th century fool may give wise man fool may give wise man Fools and bairns should never see half-done work. early 18th century fools and bairns Fools and bairns never see half-done work Fools ask questions that wise men cannot answer. mid 17th century fools ask questions Fools ask questions wise...
John Dryden (1631–1700) Quick reference
Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
... (1681) pt. 1, l. 781 people's judgement most may err as grossly as the few Never was patriot yet, but was a fool. Absalom and Achitophel (1681) pt. 1, l. 968 Beware the fury of a patient man. Absalom and Achitophel (1681) pt. 1, l. 1005 fury of a patient man fury of a patient man None but the brave deserves the fair. Alexander's Feast (1697) l. 7 None but the brave deserves the fair Sweet is pleasure after pain. Alexander's Feast (1697) l. 60 pleasure after pain pleasure after pain Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would...
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) Quick reference
Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...Authors ed.) marriage of true minds marriage of true minds love is not love alters when it alteration finds Love's not Time's fool. Sonnet 116 (Oxford Standard Authors ed.) love 's not Time's fool Love's not time 's fool Love's not Time's fool Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Sonnet 116 (Oxford Standard Authors ed.) love alters not If this be error I never writ The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in...
Robert Burns (1759–96) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...na men Rejoiced they were na men na men, but dogs All in this mottie, misty clime, I backward mus'd on wasted time, How I had spent my youthfu' prime An' done nae-thing, But stringing blethers up to rhyme For fools to sing. ‘The Vision’ (1785) mottie, misty clime mus'd on wasted time spent my youthfu' prime stringing blethers up to rhyme For fools to sing What can a young lassie, what shall a young lassie, What can a young lassie do wi' an auld man? ‘What can a Young Lassie do wi' an Auld Man’ (1792) What can a young lassie do What can a young lassie ...
Life Quick reference
Oxford Essential Quotations (6 ed.)
...There would have been a time for such a word, To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616 English dramatist Macbeth (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16 (Oxford Standard...
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,— we make guilty of our own disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion. King Lear (1605–6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [ 132 ] foppery of the world foppery of the world sick in fortune sick in fortune surfeit of our own behaviour guilty of our own disasters guilty of our own disasters villains by necessity villains by necessity fools by heavenly compulsion fools by heavenly compulsion fools by...
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2 ed.)
...helpless and so ridiculous. Journal , 1833 Traveling is a fool's paradise. Emerson wrote that it is “for want of self culture” that educated Americans had created “the idol of traveling.” After calling travel “a fool's paradise,” he noted, “We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing.” Self-Reliance , in Essays: First Series , 1841 We go to Europe to be Americanized. Culture in The Conduct of Life , 1860 Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. Fate in The Conduct of Life , 1860 Trust men and they will be true to you. Prudence ,...
The Bible (Authorized Version, 1611) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. Ecclesiastes ch. 7, v. 4 heart of fools house of mirth house of mirth As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool. Ecclesiastes ch. 7, v. 6 crackling of thorns crackling of thorns under a pot laughter of a fool laughter of a fool In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. Ecclesiastes ch. 7, v. 14 day of prosperity day of adversity God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Ecclesiastes ch. 7, v. 29...
The Book of Common Prayer (1662) Reference library
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...feast-day. Psalm 81, v. 1 sing we merrily Sing we merrily make a cheerful noise make a cheerful noise Take the psalm bring hither the tabret harp with the lute harp with the lute blow up the trumpet Blow up the trumpet even in the time appointed upon our solemn feast-day upon our solemn feast -day I have said, Ye are gods: and ye are all children of the most Highest. But ye shall die like men: and fall like one of the princes. Psalm 82, v. 6 I have said, Ye are gods children of the most highest die like men die like men like one of the ...
Anonymous Reference library
Brewer's Famous Quotations
...view of ‘People Power’ that John Lennon appeared to promote in the 1971 song ‘Power to the People (Right on!)’ Pray, Mrs Mouse, are you within? Heigh ho! says Rowley. From the nursery rhyme ‘A Frog He Would A-wooing Go’ (first recorded 1611). Hence, Mrs Mouse Are You Within? , the title of a play (1968) by Frank Marcus. Private Eye (No. 299, June 1973) quoted what the elderly 10th Duke of Marlborough had said on returning from one of his honeymoons: ‘I'm afraid Mr Mouse didn't come out to play.’ Regulations [are] written for the obedience of fools and the...
