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Call a spade a spade.
Topic: Names
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritis Junior to the Reader (p. 11)
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See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea,
one river, and see all.
Topic: Nature
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. 2, memb. 4, subsec. 7)
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He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
Topic: Opportunity
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. 2, mem. 5, subs. 5), quoted
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From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the
sword.
[Lat., Hinc quam sit calamus saevior euse, patet.]
Topic: Pen
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. XXI, mem. 4, subsec. 4)
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They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.
Topic: Plagiarism
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal
from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much; he that comes
last is commonly best.
Topic: Plagiarism
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.
Topic: Pride
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 14)
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As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 4, subsec. I)
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Believe Robert who has tried it.
[Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy, a proverb quoted by him in the introduction
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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sc. II, memb. 2, subsect. 3)
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Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. I, memb. 3)
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Going as if he trod upon eggs.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. II, memb. 3)
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Penny wise, pound foolish.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
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A man convinced against his will,
Is of the some opinion still.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
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Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
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Great actions are not always true sons
Of great and mighty resolutions.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
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I am not now in fortune's power,
He that is down can fall no lower.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
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One religion is as true as another.
Topic: Religion
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (bk. III, sec. IV, memb. 2, subsec, 1)
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When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.
Topic: Rome
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (III, 4, 2)
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A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
Topic: Shame
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsec. 6)
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Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
Topic: Shoemaking
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 34), (ed. 1887)
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A quiet mind cureth all.
Topic: Silence
Source: None
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All our geese are swans.
Topic: Swans
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 14)
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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.
Topic: Temptation
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. XIII)
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The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
Topic: Water
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 4, subsect. 1)
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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Topic: Weapons
Source: None
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He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
Topic: Will
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. 2, mem. 5, subs. 5), quoted
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Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Topic: Wit
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. III, memb. 1, subsect. 3)
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Wonders I sing; the sun has set; no night has followed.
[Lat., Mira cano; sol occubuit;
Nox nulla secuta est.]
Topic: Wonders
Source: quoting Giraldus Gambrensis found in Camden "Epigrammes"
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Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to
worship by all means the gods of the place.
Topic: Worship
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec,. IV, memb. 1, subsec. 5)
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