The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.

Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!

He who does not work, will not eat

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour, or slumber over his taske he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true paines in a weeke, as now for themselves they will doe in a day: neither cared they for the increase, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the generall store must maintaine them, so that wee reaped not so much Corne from the labours of thirtie, as now three or foure doe provide for themselves.