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• I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids.
  -- Old Testament -- Psalm cxxxii, 4; Proverbs vi, 4...
• All that a man hath will he give for his life. -- Old Testament -- Job ii, 4
• Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet.
  Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete....
• Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplatio
  Title and profit I resign; The post of honour shall be mine....
• Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine
  Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I 'll not look for wine....
• Unhand me, gentlemen. By heaven, I 'll make a ghost of him that lets me!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act i, Sc. 4...
• I 'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I 'll stick.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap. vii...
• Bart: Milhouse...do you ever worry that your mom might stop loving you?
  Milhouse: What? I'm more worried about pirhanas. Did you see that movie where they send a nuclear submarine to fight the pirhanas, and one of them swims right down the periscope and bites the guy in the eye, and he goes, "Aah!...