The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

They lard their lean books with the fat of others’ works.
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) ‘Democritus to the Reader’
I had not time to lick it into form, as she [a bear] doth her young ones.
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) ‘Democritus to the Reader’
Like watermen, that row one way and look another.
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) ‘Democritus to the Reader’.
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) ‘Democritus to the Reader’
Frascatorius...freely grants all poets to be mad, so doth Scaliger, and who doth not.
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) ‘Democritus to the Reader’.
A loose, plain, rude writer.
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) ‘Democritus to the Reader’
What, if a dear year come or dearth, or some loss? And were it not that they are loath to lay out
money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 1, sect. 2, member 3, subsect. 12
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and
women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 1, sect. 2, member 3, subsect. 13
Hinc quam sit calamus saevior ense patet.
From this it is clear how much the pen is worse than the sword.
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 1, sect. 2, member 4, subsect. 4.
See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 1, sect. 2, member 4, subsect. 7
One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 1, sect. 2, member 4, subsect. 7
The gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 2, sect. 3, member 1, subsect. 1
Every thing, saith Epictetus, hath two handles, the one to be held by, the other not.
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 2, sect. 3, member 3, subsect. 1
Who cannot give good counsel? ’tis cheap, it costs them nothing.
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 2, sect. 3, member 3, subsect. 1
What is a ship but a prison?
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 2, sect. 3, member 4, subsect. 1.
All places are distant from Heaven alike.
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 2, sect. 3, member 4, subsect. 1
‘Let me not live,’ saith Aretine’s Antonia, ‘if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a
play!’
‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621-51) pt. 3, sect. 1, member 1, subsect. 1
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.