The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.

How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?

He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.

Sweets to the sweet.

Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.