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• It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
  -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xx, 14...
• Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
  -- Old Testament -- 1 Kings xx, 11...
• He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
  -- Mathew Henry (1662-1714) -- Commentaries, Psalm xxxvi...
• The hearing ear and the seeing eye. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xx, 12
• All that a man hath will he give for his life. -- Old Testament -- Job ii, 4
• HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spiri
  he place where the dead live. Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our Hell, many of the most respectable men of antiquity residing there in a very comfortable kind of way....
• The sleep of a labouring man is sweet. -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes v, 12
• They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree. -- Old Testament -- Micah iv, 4
• The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.
  -- Old Testament -- Psalm lv, 21...