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“Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.”
—English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, no. 4321 (1732)
“If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)
“It is yours,
And might we lay th’old proverb to your charge,
So like you, ‘tis the worse.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)