Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.
Possession is eleven points in the law.
The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
A weak invention of the Enemy.
Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.
So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.