A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.