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• She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
  -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. x...
• Rome was not built in one day. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. xi
• It is a deere collop That is cut out of th' owne flesh.
  -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. x...
• I saw him now going the way of all flesh. -- John Webster (c.
  1580-1625) -- Westward Hoe, Act ii, Sc. 2...
• Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman. -- Juvenal (60-140 CE)
• In the great right of an excessive wrong.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The other Half-Rome, Line 1055...
• I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good
  But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood....
• Homer: [spots a nice ring] Wow. I'll take <that> ring.
  Clerk: Yes, sir, and how will you be paying for it?...
• WAR I think Frankie Goes To Hollywood had it right.
  Put the leaders - the actual people who've insulted each others' grandmothers or whatever - in the ring, and let them beat the shit out of each other....