A constance est la chimère de l'amour.
Vauvenargues, Réflexions.
ON AN INTEMPERATE HUSBAND.
HENCE comes it that in Clara's face
The lily only has a place?
Is it because the absent rose
Has gone to paint her husband's nose?
A Collection of Epigrams (1727).
HARLES] SHERIDAN told me that his father, being a good deal plagued by an old maiden relation of his always going out to walk with him, said one day that the weather was bad and rainy; to which the old lady answered that, on the contrary, it had cleared up. "Yes," said Sheridan, "it has cleared enough for one, but not for two."
Thomas Moore, Diary.
