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

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Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12.

A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.

Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12.

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.[188:2]

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.[188:3]