Magill's Quotations in Context: Second Series, Volume 2

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Frank Northen Magill, Tench Francis Tilghman
Harper & Row, 1969 - 1350 pages

Contents

Mad career Suspend your 1022
lviii
World mad kings mad composition Mad 654
1
Legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind Books are the 107
3
Fruit first falls The Ripest 923
6
Fight another day He who turns and runs away lives to 417
9
Child what should it know of death? A Simple 971
12
Good The Supreme 1021
15
Flaming bounds of place and time He passed the 405
16
Good Theyre only truly great who are truly 1078
736
Nature say one thing and wisdom say another Never did
744
Vacant mind With a body filled and 1286
752
Pleasure laid Remorse the fatal egg by 912
760
Husband than the best of men No worse a
762
Nature true Not without art but yet to
774
Ghost It is an honest 543
788
Iago the pity of it 0
790

Cow Everyone as they like as the good woman said when she kissed her 261
21
Hatred turned Heaven has no rage like love to 423
22
Strange twas passing strange Twas 1156
29
Sleep thou flatterer of happy minds 0 791
34
Paid that is well satisfied Well 1216
57
Mind in a sound body A Sound 998
60
Sober as a judge As
63
Sundry places The Scripture moveth us in 944
64
Minds The Marriage of true 686
67
Choirs where late the sweet birds sang Bare ruined
73
Jennys case Vengeance of 1179
90
Crack your cheeks Blow winds and
93
Heaven Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive but to be young was very
100
Mad she always goes into white satin When a heroine goes 1242
105
Tails you lose Heads I win 419
107
Choose The World was all before them where to 1304
108
Liberty License they mean when they cry 609
114
Painted Devils are not so black as they be 210
118
Manhood A Grain of 364
128
Creeds outworn The Dust of 235
129
May The World is white with 1304
135
Tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive Oh what a 808
141
Clarence False fleeting perjured 274
145
Weather Politics go by the 877
147
Colors Coat of many
154
Life became him like the leaving it Nothing in his 777
164
Horne Triton blowing loud his wreathed 1149
166
Parting there is an image of death In every 523
177
Tears Crocodiles
178
Life Custom is the great guide of human
182
Unextinguishable laugh in heaven That 1045
189
Selflove The Deceiving mirror of
201
Name A Deed without a
202
Deceit Yet still we hug the dear 1310
207
Minions of the moon Dianas foresters gentlemen of the shade
211
Buckingham Off with his head So much for 803
234
Crown The Hollow 448
235
West of the moon East of the sun
236
Heaven by sea as by land We are as near to 1197
238
Dreams to shame Gods gifts put mans best 353
247
Mob Our supreme governors the 839
252
Past Even God cannot change the
253
Flesh and blood so cheap Oh God that bread should be so dear and 804
254
Hell nor am I out of it This is 1084
255
Money heigh ho How pleasant it is to have 460
260
Selling something Everyone lives by
263
Hour you come most carefully upon your 1314
272
Funeral afore I die Ive a great fancy to see my own 557
281
Cruel only to be kind I must be 491
285
Wrong Forever most divinely in the
308
Flummery Down on 230
309
Deceiver A Gay
326
Dullness ever loves a joke Gentle
331
Deeds is known The Gentle mind by gentle
332
Gab The Gift of
333
Come to you Whistle and shell 1263
336
Joan Some men must love my lady and some 993
338
Name The Glory and the nothing of a
339
Galilean Lake The Pilot of the 864
349
Sober life A Godly righteous and
350
Senates hang upon thy tongue While listening 1260
360
Crumbs Pickerup of learnings 860
366
Bugle horn were worth a thousand men One blast upon his 819
369
Fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer The Greatest
380
Medicine Grief is itself a
383
Servant does not all commands Every good 255
385
Garden of girls The Rosebud 926
392
Past life is to live twice To enjoy ones 1123
396
Peace He makes a solitude and calls it
404
Served Youth will be 1328
406
Unhonored dead Mindful of the 707
429
Tears for misfortune There are 1052
430
Monument Patience on a 851
434
Humour A Holiday
447
Eagle among blinking owls A Hooded
453
accept the
463
Caesar and his fortune You carry 1313
470
Medicine the less Great griefs I see 370
478
Generation will come knocking at my door The Younger 1322
483
Kalends They will pay on the Greek 1076
489
Eagle blind A Lovers eyes will gaze an 649
501
Earth The Cool flowery lap of 172
517
Tears Smiling through 980
530
Eat to live not live to eat One must 823
539
Wind in that corner? Sits the 974
541
Name like yours you might be any shape With a 1287
542
Fool than to be dead It is better to be a
544
Toolmaking animal Man is a 669
557
Labor too and tires as much Pleasure is 871
559
Morning shows the day The Childhood shows the man as 142
563
Wrong The King can do no
564
Genius without some touch of madness There is no great 1056
565
Deep to the great deep From the great 319
567
Mountain scarce brings forth a mouse The Laboring
574
Piety more prone The Weaker sex to 1213
584
Conquer Antony Antony should 44
600
Democracy Tyranny arises out of 1159
605
Caesar might be great What millions died that 1232
615
Hung upon his lips Persuasion 857
617
Ladies A Lion among
621
Candle throws his beams How far that little 458
629
Unkindness Drink down all 233
634
Winds and crack your cheeks Blow 103
638
Mouth Down in the 229
641
Trade of kings War is the 1193
653
Meditation fancyfree Maiden
658
Ecstasy of love The Very 1181
661
Shadow of a mighty name He stands the 409
664
Nature hath but more Man hath all which
665
Cannons mouth Seeking the bubble reputation even in the 947
667
Solemn creed with solemn sneer Sapping a 940
674
Case A Lady in the 575
680
Contract Marriage is nothing but a civil
685
Contrary The Memory of man runneth not to the
696
Vacant is a mind distressed A Mind quite
706
Pity of it O Iago the 789
710
Wrong The Multitude is always in the
722
Curtsey A Mutilated
726
Lady Disdain My dear
728
Enemy My nearest and dearest
733
Melancholy In nature there is nothing 526
792
High horse On a
816
Wise The Only wretched are the
832
569
837
Fools The Paradise of
846
Cat A Harmless necessary 394
848
Tragedy is the noblest production of human nature A Perfect
857
Pleasure Variety is the soul of 1176
861
1194
863
Wise the best fools be Who are a little 1268
865
High to fall but stoop to rise Soar not too 986
874
Tragedy to those that feel This world is a comedy to those that think A 1091
889
Near and yet so far So 984
891
Murder will out Vanity like 1175
893
Shore sailor pull for the shore Pull for the
896
Lady fair Faint heart neer wan a 269
905
Short and far between Visits like those of angels 1187
915
Vain Weep the more because I weep in 1214
924
Hive for bees His helmet now shall make a 440
925
Foot Hercules is not only known by his 431
928
Nemean lions nerve As hardy as the 59
932
Graces Sacrifice to the
933
Law The Safety of the people shall be their highest
935
Teeth sans eyes sans taste sans everything Sans
939
Vanquished Woe to the 1292
948
Despised grow great Dangers by being 188
957
Politics and politics present history History is past 446
961
Vice of fools Pride the neverfailing 887
968
Grapeshot A Whiff of 1259
982
Tribute of a smile The Vain 1174
983
Mute inglorious Milton Some
993
Pens that ever poets held If all the 509
994
Silence Speech is the small change of
1002
Womans nursing there was dearth of womans tears There was lack of 1061
1003
Daggers in mens smiles Theres 1062
1006
People has something divine The Voice of the 1189
1010
Virtue virtue to commend For tis some 305
1024
Melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs I can suck 472
1028
England the nearer is to France The Further off from 321
1036
Foresters gentlemen of the shade minions of the moon Dianas 213
1039
Grave That dark inn the
1042
Warfare oer Soldier rest thy 987
1047
Life is almost as rare as a wellspent one A Wellwritten 1219
1049
Trojan walls Troilus mounted the 1151
1055
Life There is no wealth but
1057
Destiny Manifest 677
1060
Grave Theres no repentance in the
1065
Truth Art remains the one way possible of speaking 54
1070
Sought in vain that sought the Lord aright They never
1072
Cat laps milk Theyll take suggestion as a
1077
Posterity Think of your forefathers and of your
1079
Soul shall be required of thee This night thy
1086
Poverty depressed Slow rises worth by 979
1093
Holidays Envy keeps no 246
1097
Courage Threeoclockinthemorning
1102
Epithets of war Horribly stuffed with 455
1104
Devourer of all things Time thou
1109
Soul was like that A White bird his own 1264
1111
Glory shows the way Tis beauty calls and
1112
Deacon swear Enough to make a 245
1113
Pretexts Tyrants seldom want 1161
1117
Ills from beauty spring What 1230
1119
Gray hairs The Oldest man he seemed that ever wore 815
1125
Honesty is the beginning of education To make your children capable of
1128
Memory for forgetting A Grand 365
1130
Princes have great playthings Great 376
1138
Increment Unearned 1164
1144
Life The Tree of
1148
Simple Truth is rarely pure and never
1153
Souls with but a single thought two hearts that beat as one Two
1159
Opinion The Coquetry of public 173
1162
Great things with small To compare 1121
1167
Law thou mine God is thy 348
1169
Habit of living indisposeth us for dying The Long 631
1177
Courtesy The Greater the man the greater 377
1182
Honesty out of fashion Laugh all 581
1186
Waters Voice of many
1187
Light Let there be 599
1217
Tub Tale of a 1034
1220
Perennial spring Falsehood has a 275
1234
God be pitiful who never said God be praised Lips say 622
1239
Hamlet sleep The Rude forefathers of the 928
1240
Spain Castles in 132
1241
Free country Parties must ever exist in a 849
1244
Myself When I give I give
1245
Lips away Take O take those 1032
1251
Leak will sink a ship and one sin will destroy a sinner One 823
1252
Spider to the Fly Will you walk into my parlor? said the 1282
1255
Mystery begins religion ends Where
1257
Goest thou? Whither
1266
Wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure Who
1272
Infinite spaces terrifies me The Eternal silence of these 250
1275
Dice were human bones Whose
1276
Spur of all great minds Danger the 187
1277
Inn No room in the 759
1301
Innocence but sin Ignorance is not 514
1307
Freeman whom the truth makes free He is the 404
1308
Cat than choking her with cream More ways of killing a 715
1312
Tell You must not kiss and
1316
Dido In such a night stood 527
1317
Sin and some by virtue fall Some rise by 996
1323
Word is God in man Mans 682
1331
Dies The King never 566
1332
Hope Darkness quieted by 190
1333
Friendship ever ends in love A Womans 1295
1334
Goethe Close thy Byron open thy 152
1335
Change The Ringing grooves of 922
1337
Death There is no drinking after 1054
1338
Divine than the physician More needs she the 713
1339
Happiest Homekeeping hearts are 449
1340
Pernicious to mankind Inflaming wine 533
1341
Horatio than are dreamt of in your philosophy There are more things in heaven
1342
Jangled out of tune Sweet bells 1024
1343
Stalkinghorse to error They make truth serve as a 1069
1344
Doctor but himself No man therein 755
1345
Happiest moments of the happiest and best minds Poetry is the record of the best and 874
1347
hear America 485
1348
Uncut hair of graves The Beautiful 79
1349
Chess Life is too short for 613
1350
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