FRANCIS BEAUMONT

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

Kiss till the cow comes home.

Bad's the best of us.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

You are no better than you should be.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

But what is past my help is past my care.

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.

Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.

Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.

My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and I a wretched creature: I have sinn'd; but be thou merciful, and grant that yet I may enjoy what thou wilt have me love!

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.