
“She frieth in her owne grease.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“She frieth in her owne grease.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
“When I think of soul I think of grease ’cause ain’t nothin’ no good without the grease.”
Interlude to Respect, live at Basin Street West, San Francisco, 22 February 1969, Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT4PpnoPPqk&feature=youtu.be&t=420 on YouTube
Source: The book of the husbandry. (1523/1882), p. 47.
“No government functions without the grease of corruption.”
La Silla del Águila (The Eagle's Throne) (2003)
Quote of Moore in 'Partisan Review', New York, March-April 1947
1940 - 1955