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• The monster London laugh at me. -- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) -- Of Solitude, xi
• Life is an incurable disease. -- Abraham Cowley
• His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong
  his life, I 'm sure, was in the right. -- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) -- On the Death of Crashaw...
• Every man is apt to form his notions of things difficult to be apprehended, or less familiar, from their analogy to things which are more familiar.
  Thus, if a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subjec...
• My whole life has been a tissue of whoppers. I consider myself to be one of England's finest liers.
  ..Oh, my God, Percy, a giant humming- bird is about to eat your hat and cloak!...
• What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own?
  -- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) -- The Motto...
• A woman was married to a golfer. One day she asked, "If I were to die, would you remarry?
  After some thought, the man replied, "Yes, I've been very happy in this marriage and I would want to be this happy again....
• A man may well bring a horse to the water, But he cannot make him drinke without he will.
  -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. xi...
• Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his maste
  hus it is a sort of grandchild of God. [ che l'arte vostra quella, quanto pote, segue, come 'l maestro fa il discente...