Hunger is the best sauce in the world. |
I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone keep the cobwebs out of my eyes. |
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me. |
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. |
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion. |
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. |
I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man’s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one’s self. |
I hate to keep things long in case they go mouldy from over-keeping. |
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. |
I have other fish to fry. |
I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose. |
I know who I am, and I know too that I am capable of being not only the characters I have named, but all the Twelve Peers of France, and all the Nine Worthies as well. |
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all. |
I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it. |
If that should not be, cousin, I say: patience and shuffle the cards. |