"Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward."

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"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"I am almost frighted out of my seven senses."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"I have other fish to fry."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Can we ever have too much of a good thing?"

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Patience, and shuffle the cards."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Heaven's help is better than early rising."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Of good natural parts and of a liberal education."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"The proof of the pudding is the eating."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Sure as a gun."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Remember the old saying, "Faint heart never won fair lady.""

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Sing away sorrow, cast away care."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Now had Aurora displayed her mantle over the blushing skies, and dark night withdrawn her sable veil."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Time ripens all things. No man is born wise."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Delay always breeds danger."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"You can see farther into a millstone than he."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

""Sit there, clod-pate!" cried he; "for let me sit wherever I will, that will still be the upper end, and the place of worship to thee.""

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"You cannot eat your cake and have your cake; and store 's no sore."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"It is good to live and learn."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Plain as the nose on a man's face."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"An honest man's word is as good as his bond."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"She may guess what I should perform in the wet, if I do so much in the dry."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"I begin to smell a rat."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"There is no love lost between us."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other."

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"Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"I tell thee, that is Mambrino's helmet."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

""There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it.""

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"I must follow him through thick and thin."

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"Within a stone's throw of it."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"This peck of troubles."

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