She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.
I never knew any man cured of inattention.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.