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

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Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room.

Holy and Profane State. Of Natural Fools.

The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Holy and Profane State. Of Tombs.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Holy and Profane State. Of Books.

They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.

Holy and Profane State. Of Marriage.

Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.

Holy and Profane State. Fame.