“Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
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“It is most true, stylus virum arguit,—our style bewrays us.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Section 2, member 3, subsection 14.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.”
Section 1, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.”
Section 2, member 2, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.”
Section 3, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.”
Section 2, member 3, Air rectified. With a digression of the Air.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end.”
Section 1, member 1, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Birds of a feather will gather together.”
Section 1, member 1, subsection 2, Love's Beginning, Object, Definition, Division.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.”
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Section 2, member 3, subsection 10.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars.”
Section 2, member 3, subsection 15, Love of Learning, or overmuch study. With a Digression of the misery of Scholars, and why the Muses are Melancholy.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Section 2, member 2, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Though it rain daggers with their points downward.”
Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.”
Section 2, member 4, subsection 7, A heap of other Accidents causing Melancholy, Death of Friends, Losses, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.”
Section 2, member 2, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,—the one to be held by, the other not.”
Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II