Related:

• Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my Uncle Toby, "but nothing to this.
  -- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) -- Tristram Shandy, Vol. iii, Chap. xi...
• Great wits jump. -- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) -- Tristram Shandy, Vol. iii, Chap. ix
• Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee?
  This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me....
• Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
  -- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) -- Tristram Shandy, Vol. iii, Chap. xii...
• The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it i
  and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever....
• He always looked a given horse in the mouth. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book i, Chap.
  xi...
• While the grasse groweth the horse starveth. -- John Heywood (c.
  1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. xi...
• They order," said I, "this matter better in France.
  -- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) -- Sentimental Journey, Page 1...
• A man may well bring a horse to the water, But he cannot make him drinke without he will.
  -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. xi...