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• And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.
  -- John Bunyan (1628-1688) -- Pilgrim's Progress, Apology for his Book...
• Every fat must stand upon his bottom. -- John Bunyan (1628-1688) -- Pilgrim's Progress, Part i
• The name of the slough was Despond. -- John Bunyan (1628-1688) -- Pilgrim's Progress, Part i
• Dark as pitch. -- John Bunyan (1628-1688) -- Pilgrim's Progress, Part i
• They came to the Delectable Mountains.
  -- John Bunyan (1628-1688) Pilgrim's Progress, -- Pilgrim's Progress, Part i...
• Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
  -- John Bunyan (1628-1688) -- The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim...
• Well I looked at my watch and it said a quarter to five, The headline screamed that I was still alive, I couldn't understand it, I thought I died last night.
  I dreamed I'd been in a border town, In a little cantina that the boys had found, I was desperate to dance, just to dig the local sounds....
• As King Arthur said: "Some days it all seems so feudal.
• It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.
  -- John Lyly (c. 1554-1606) -- Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), Page 80...