No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.

Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too wide, Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside; The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein, The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain; And when too short the modish shoes are worn, You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.