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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| Page 44 |
| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 399 |
| Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 400 |
| I have no other but a woman’s reason: I think him so, because I think him so. |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 401 |
| O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| 402 |
| And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 403 |
| O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man’s face, 1 or a weathercock on a steeple. |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 404 |
| She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 4. |
| 405 |
| He makes sweet music with th’ enamell’d stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 7. |
| 406 |
| That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1. |
| 407 |
| Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1. |
| 408 |
| A man I am, cross’d with adversity. |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| 409 |
| Is she not passing fair? |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4. |
| 410 |
| How use doth breed a habit in a man! 2 |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4. |
| 411 |
| O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect. |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4. |
| 412 |
| Come not within the measure of my wrath. |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4. |
| 413 |
| I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 414 |
| All his successors gone before him have done ’t; and all his ancestors that come after him may. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| Note 1. As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man’s face.—Robert Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sect. 3, memb. 4, subsect. 1. [back] |
| Note 2. Custom is almost second nature.—Plutarch: Preservation of Health. [back] |
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