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 ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 4.

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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.