
“Actions o' th' last age are like almanacks o' th' last year.”
The Sophy: A Tragedy (1642), Act I, scene ii.
Writing as his character, "th' Hon. Ex.-Editur Cale Fluhart." as quoted in The American Humorist : Conscience of the Twentieth Century (1964) by Norris W. Yeats, p. 107.
“Actions o' th' last age are like almanacks o' th' last year.”
The Sophy: A Tragedy (1642), Act I, scene ii.
Abe Martin's Primer : The Collected Writings of Abe Martin and his Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors (1914).
Abe Martin's Primer : The Collected Writings of Abe Martin and his Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors (1914)
As quoted in Instant Quotation Dictionary (1969) by Donald O. Bolander, p. 23.
Variant: Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
“Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?”
Canto II, line 317
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Canto I, line 131
Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Context: Whatever sceptic could inquire for,
For ev'ry why he had a wherefore;
Knew more than forty of them do,
As far as words and terms cou'd go.
All which he understood by rote
And, as occasion serv'd, would quote;
No matter whether right or wrong,
They might be either said or sung.
His notions fitted things so well,
That which was which he could not tell;
But oftentimes mistook th' one
For th' other, as great clerks have done.
“And sure th' Eternal Master found
His single talent well employ'd.”
Stanza 7
Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser in Physic (1783)
“This day, Time winds th' exhausted chain,
To run the twelvemonth's length again.”
New Year's Day, st. 1 (1790)