Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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[32:3] The camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows.—Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV. act ii. sc. 4.

[32:4] See Heywood, page [11].

[32:5] A brown study.—Swift: Polite Conversation.

[32:6] Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.—Plutarch: Of the Training of Children.

Stillicidi casus lapidem cavat (Continual dropping wears away a stone). Lucretius: i. 314.

[32:7]

Many strokes, though with a little axe,

Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

Shakespeare: 3 Henry VI. act ii. sc. 1.

[32:8] See Heywood, page [12].