This house is to be let for life or years;
Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears.
Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known,
She must be dearly let, or let alone.
-- Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
-- Emblems, Book ii, Emblem 10, Ep. 10
Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears.
Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known,
She must be dearly let, or let alone.
-- Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
-- Emblems, Book ii, Emblem 10, Ep. 10
Related:
- The next way home 's the farthest way about.
-- Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
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Emblems, Book iv, Emblem 2, Ep.... - Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.
-- Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
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Emblems, Book ii, Emblem... - The slender debt to Nature 's quickly paid,
Discharged,
perchance, with greater ease than made. -- Francis... - Let art alone.
She's got enough guys sleeping with her... - It is the lot of man but once to die.
-- Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
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Emblems, Book v, Emblem... - Fame may be compared to a scold: the best way to silence her is to let her
alone,
and she will at last be out of breath in blowing her... - But you can't let her drive!
She's legally blonde... - Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands
her own affairs than we.
Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii... - ALL: A witch! A witch!
WITCH: It's a fair cop.
ALL:
Burn her! Burn her! Let's make her into a ladder...
