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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.
An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.
A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.
I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.
All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.
Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.
'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.