Chapter LESSON to LIFE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

LIE.—You lie—under a mistake.

Shelley.—From Calderon.

Thou liest in thy throat.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 4 (Sir Toby to Fabian); King Henry IV. Part II. Act I. Scene 2.

I give him joy, that’s awkward at a lie.

Young.—Night VIII. Line 361.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Young.—Night VIII. Line 587.

The lie circumstantial, and the lie direct.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act V. Scene 4. (Touchstone to Jaques.)

LIFE.—The web of our life is of a mingled yarn,
Good and ill together.

Shakespeare.—All’s Well that Ends Well, Act IV. Scene 3. (First Lord to Second Lord.)

Whose life with care is overcast,
That man’s not said to live, but last;
Nor is’t life, seven years to tell,
But for to live that half seven well.

Herrick.—Hesp. Pastorals, No. 3.

Thus we lived many years in a state of much happiness; not but that we sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours.

Goldsmith.—Vicar of Wakefield, Chap I.

After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act III. Scene 2. (To his Lady.)

LIFE.—O life! how pleasant in thy morning,
Young fancy’s rays the hills adorning!
Cold-pausing caution’s lesson scorning, We frisk away,
Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play.

Burns.—Epistle to James Smith, Verse 15.

I bear a charmed life.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act V. Scene 7. (To Macduff.)

To husband out life’s taper at the close,
And keep the flames from wasting, by repose.

Goldsmith.—Deserted Village, Line 87.

Let us (since life can little more supply
Than just to look about us and to die)
Expatiate free o’er all this scene of Man;
A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epistle I. Line 3.

Men deal with life as children with their play,
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.