"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."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 13.

"All our geese are swans."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 14.

"Though they [philosophers] write contemptu gloriæ, yet as Hieron observes, they will put their names to their books."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 14.

"They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 14.

"We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars; kings can invest knights and barons, as Sigismund the emperor confessed."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 15.

"Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.

"Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him.""

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 6.

"See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 7.

"Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.

"Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3.

"Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 1, Memb. 2.

"Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.

"Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1.

"Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2.

"Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards; their worthiest captains, best wits, greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been base [born]."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2.

"As he said in Machiavel, omnes eodem patre nati, Adam's sons, conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked; let us wear theirs and they our clothes, and what is the difference?""

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2.

"Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2.

"Christ himself was poor. . . . And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.

"Who cannot give good counsel? 'T is cheap, it costs them nothing."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.

"Many things happen between the cup and the lip."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.

"What can't be cured must be endured."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.

"Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,--the one to be held by, the other not."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.

"All places are distant from heaven alike."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 4.

"The commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.""

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 6.

""Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play.""

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1.

"Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1.

"Birds of a feather will gather together."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.

"And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1.

"And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 3.

"Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 3.

"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.

"To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.

"He is only fantastical that is not in fashion."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3.

"[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels.""

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3.

"To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 4.

"Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5.

"Diogenes struck the father when the son swore."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5.

"Though it rain daggers with their points downward."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.

"Going as if he trod upon eggs."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.

"I light my candle from their torches."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 5, Subsect. 1.

"England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.

"The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1.

"As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1.

"Make a virtue of necessity."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1.

"Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1.

"If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.

"For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.

"The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.

"Out of too much learning become mad."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2.

"The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies."

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3.