Chapter PERFECT to PINCH of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Milton.—L’Allegro, Line 85.

PHILOSOPHY.—Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act III. Scene 2.

PHYSIC.—Throw physic to the dogs, I’ll none of it.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act V. Scene 3.

PHYSICIAN.—A wise physician, skill’d our wounds to heal,
Is more than armies to the public weal.

Pope.—The Iliad, Book XI. Line 636.

Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists.

Riley’s Dict. Class. Quot. 472. A mediæval proverb.

Physician heal thyself.

St. Luke.—Chap. IV. Verse 23.

PICTURES.—The sleeping, and the dead
Are but as pictures.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act II. Scene 2.

Dost thou love pictures?

Shakespeare.—Taming of the Shrew, Induction, Scene 2.

PIN.—I do not set my life at a pin’s fee.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 4.

See, a pin is there,
A pin a day will fetch a groat a year.

King.—Art of Cookery, Line 404.

Pin a dishclout to his tail.

Swift.—Mary’s Letter to Dr. Sheridan.

PINCH.— Along with them
They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain,
A mere anatomy, a mountebank.

Shakespeare.—Comedy of Errors, Act V. Scene 1.