Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.
In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.