1=ADAM WAS NOT ALONE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, HOWEVER, AND DOES NOT DESERVE ALL THE CREDIT; MUCH IS DUE TO EVE, THE FIRST WOMAN, AND SATAN, THE FIRST CONSULTANT.
2=ADAM SPEAKING: AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, I SEE THAT I WAS MISTAKEN ABOUT EVE IN THE BEGINNING; IT IS BETTER TO LIVE OUTSIDE THE GARDEN WITH HER THAN INSIDE IT WITHOUT HER.
3=BY TRYING, WE CAN EASILY LEARN TO ENDURE ADVERSITY. ANOTHER MAN'S, I MEAN.
4=LADIES AND CHILDREN NOT ADMITTED. "THERE," SAYS HE, "IF THAT LINE DON'T FETCH THEM, I DON'T KNOW ARKANSAW." -- HUCKLEBERRY FINN
5=DO NOT TELL FISH STORIES WHERE PEOPLE KNOW YOU; BUT PARTICULARLY, DON'T TELL THEM WHERE THEY KNOW THE FISH.
6=ALWAYS ACKNOWLEDGE A FAULT FRANKLY. THIS WILL THROW THOSE IN AUTHORITY OFF THEIR GUARD AND GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO COMMIT MORE.
7=IF A PERSON OFFEND YOU AND YOU ARE IN DOUBT AS TO WHETHER IT WAS INTENTIONAL OR NOT, DO NOT RESORT TO EXTREME MEASURES. SIMPLY WATCH YOUR CHANCE AND HIT HIM WITH A BRICK.
8=DO NOT OFFER A COMPLIMENT AND ASK A FAVOR AT THE SAME TIME. A COMPLIMENT THAT IS CHARGED FOR IS NOT VALUABLE.
9=IT IS THE EARLY BIRD THAT GETS THE WORM: DON'T BE FOOLED BY THIS ABSURD SAW; I ONCE KNEW A MAN WHO TRIED IT. HE GOT UP AT SUNRISE AND A HORSE BIT HIM.
10=HAVE A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING AND KEEP THE THING SOMEWHERE ELSE; THIS IS NOT ADVICE, IT IS MERELY CUSTOM.
11=WHENEVER YOU FIND THAT YOU ARE ON THE SIDE OF THE MAJORITY, IT IS TIME TO REFORM, OR PAUSE AND REFLECT.
12=PRAISE IS WELL, COMPLIMENT IS WELL, BUT AFFECTION -- THAT IS THE LAST AND FINAL AND MOST PRECIOUS REWARD THAT ANY MAN CAN WIN, WHETHER BY CHARACTER OR ACHIEVEMENT.
13=WHATEVER A MAN'S AGE, HE CAN REDUCE IT SEVERAL YEARS BY PUTTING A BRIGHT-COLORED FLOWER IN HIS BUTTON HOLE.
14=LIFE WOULD BE INFINITELY HAPPIER IF WE COULD ONLY BE BORN AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY AND GRADUALLY APPROACH EIGHTEEN.
15=KEEP AWAY FROM PEOPLE WHO TRY TO BELITTLE YOUR AMBITIONS. SMALL PEOPLE ALWAYS DO THAT, BUT THE REALLY GREAT MAKE YOU FEEL THAT YOU, TOO, CAN BECOME GREAT.
16=WE ARE CALLED A NATION OF INVENTORS. AND WE ARE. WE COULD STILL CLAIM THAT TITLE AND WEAR ITS LOFTIEST HONORS IF WE STOPPED WITH THE FIRST THING WE INVENTED, WHICH WAS HUMAN LIBERTY.
17=WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO PURE ORNAMENTAL CURSING, THE NATIVE AMERICAN IS GIFTED ABOVE THE SONS OF MEN.
18=I HAVE BEEN ON THE VERGE OF BEING AN ANGEL ALL MY LIFE, BUT IT'S NEVER HAPPENED YET.
19=WHAT OUGHT TO BE DONE TO THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE CELEBRATING OF ANNIVERSARIES? MERE KILLING WOULD BE TOO LIGHT.
20=WE CAN SECURE OTHER PEOPLE'S APPROVAL IF WE DO RIGHT AND TRY HARD; BUT OUR OWN IS WORTH A HUNDRED OF IT, AND NO WAY HAS BEEN FOUND OUT OF SECURING THAT.
21=WOMEN CANNOT RECEIVE EVEN THE MOST PALPABLY JUDICIOUS SUGGESTION WITHOUT ARGUING IT; THAT IS, MARRIED WOMEN.
22=OH, THIS INFERNAL HUMAN RACE! I WISH I HAD IT IN THE ARK AGAIN -- WITH AN AUGER!
23=CONCERNING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MAN AND A JACKASS: SOME OBSERVERS HOLD THAT THERE ISN'T ANY. BUT THIS WRONGS THE JACKASS.
24=A BANKER IS A FELLOW WHO LENDS YOU HIS UMBRELLA WHEN THE SUN IS SHINING AND WANTS IT BACK THE MINUTE IT BEGINS TO RAIN.
25=IF A MAN DOESN'T BELIEVE AS WE DO, WE SAY HE IS A CRANK, AND THAT SETTLES IT. I MEAN, IT DOES NOWADAYS, BECAUSE NOW WE CAN'T BURN HIM.
26=THE EASY CONFIDENCE WITH WHICH I KNOW ANOTHER MAN'S RELIGION IS FOLLY TEACHES ME TO SUSPECT THAT MY OWN IS ALSO.
27=WE WERE GOOD PRESBYTERIAN BOYS WHEN THE WEATHER WAS DOUBTFUL. WHEN IT WAS FAIR WE DID WANDER A LITTLE FROM THE FOLD.
28=IF A MAN COULD BE CROSSED WITH A CAT, IT WOULD IMPROVE MAN, BUT IT WOULD DETERIORATE THE CAT.
29=THE BEST WAY TO CHEER YOURSELF IS TO TRY TO CHEER SOMEBODY ELSE UP.
30=SATAN (IMPATIENTLY) TO NEW-COMER: THE TROUBLE WITH YOU CHICAGO PEOPLE IS THAT YOU THINK YOU ARE THE BEST PEOPLE DOWN HERE; WHEREAS YOU ARE MERELY THE MOST NUMEROUS.
31=THE PROVERB SAYS THAT PROVIDENCE PROTECTS CHILDREN AND IDIOTS. THIS IS REALLY TRUE. I KNOW BECAUSE I HAVE TESTED IT.
32=IT IS A SHAMEFUL THING TO INSULT A LITTLE CHILD. IT HAS ITS FEELINGS, IT HAS ITS SMALL DIGNITY; AND SINCE IT CANNOT DEFEND THEM, IT IS SURELY AN IGNOBLE ACT TO INJURE THEM.
33=TO DO GOOD IS NOBLE; TO TEACH OTHERS TO DO GOOD IS NOBLER, AND NO TROUBLE.
34=A CLASSIC IS SOMETHING THAT EVERYONE WANTS TO HAVE READ AND NOBODY WANTS TO READ.
35=CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN. NAKED PEOPLE HAVE LITTLE OR NO INFLUENCE IN SOCIETY.
36=COLD! IF THE THERMOMETER HAD BEEN AN INCH LONGER, WE'D ALL HAVE FROZEN TO DEATH!
37=AN OCCASIONAL COMPLIMENT IS NECESSARY, TO KEEP UP ONE'S SELF RESPECT. ... WHEN YOU CANNOT GET A COMPLIMENT ANY OTHER WAY PAY YOURSELF ONE.
38=IT IS OUR NATURE TO CONFORM; IT IS A FORCE WHICH NOT MANY CAN SUCCESSFULLY RESIST. WHAT IS THE SEAT? THE INBORN REQUIREMENTS OF SELF-APPROVAL.
39=SUPPOSE YOU WERE AN IDIOT. AND SUPPOSE YOU WERE A MEMBER OF CONGRESS. BUT I REPEAT MYSELF.
40=I HAVE NOTICED MY CONSCIENCE FOR MANY YEARS, AND I KNOW IT IS MORE TROUBLE AND BOTHER TO ME THAN ANYTHING ELSE THAT I STARTED WITH.
41=THE HUMAN RACE IS A RACE OF COWARDS; AND I AM NOT ONLY MARCHING IN THAT PROCESSION BUT CARRYING A BANNER.
42=IT IS THE WILL OF GOD THAT WE MUST HAVE CRITICS, AND MISSIONARIES, AND CONGRESSMEN, AND HUMORISTS, AND WE MUST BEAR THE BURDEN.
43=PEOPLE OUGHT TO START DEAD AND THEN THEY WOULD BE HONEST SO MUCH EARLIER.
44=HEAVEN GOES BY FAVOR. IF IT WENT BY MERIT, YOU WOULD STAY OUT AND YOUR DOG WOULD GO IN.
45=SOME CIVILIZED WOMEN WOULD LOSE HALF THEIR CHARM WITHOUT DRESS AND SOME WOULD LOSE ALL OF IT.
46=I WOULD RATHER GO TO BED WITH LILLIAN RUSSELL STARK NAKED THAN WITH ULYSSES S. GRANT IN FULL MILITARY REGALIA.
47=SCOTCH WHISKY ... I ALWAYS TAKE IT AT NIGHT AS A PREVENTIVE OF TOOTHACHE. I HAVE NEVER HAD A TOOTHACHE; AND WHAT IS MORE, I NEVER INTEND TO HAVE IT.
48=HOW OFTEN WE RECALL, WITH REGRET, THAT NAPOLEON ONCE SHOT AT A MAGAZINE EDITOR AND MISSED HIM AND KILLED A PUBLISHER. BUT WE REMEMBER WITH CHARITY, THAT HIS INTENTIONS WERE GOOD.
49=IN THE FIRST PLACE, GOD MADE IDIOTS. THIS WAS FOR PRACTICE. THEN HE MADE SCHOOL BOARDS.
50=EVE, SPEAKING OF ADAM: THE GARDEN IS LOST, BUT I HAVE FOUND HIM, AND AM CONTENT.
51=IN MY ENTHUSIASM I MAY HAVE EXAGGERATED THE DETAILS A LITTLE BUT YOU WILL EASILY FORGIVE ME THAT FAULT SINCE I BELIEVE IT IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE EVER DEFLECTED FROM PERPENDICULAR FACT.
52=THE GIRL WHO WAS REBUKED FOR HAVING BORNE AN ILLEGITIMATE CHILD, EXCUSED HERSELF BY SAYING, "BUT IT IS SUCH A LITTLE ONE."
53=GET YOUR FACTS FIRST, AND THEN YOU CAN DISTORT THEM AS MUCH AS YOU PLEASE.
54=THE MERE KNOWLEDGE OF A FACT IS PALE; BUT WHEN YOU COME TO REALIZE YOUR FACT, IT TAKES ON COLOR. IT IS ALL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEARING OF A MAN BEING STABBED IN THE HEART, AND SEEING IT DONE.
55=WE DO NOT MUCH DEAL IN FACTS WHEN WE ARE CONTEMPLATING OURSELVES.
56=WHEN I WAS A BOY OF FOURTEEN, MY FATHER WAS SO IGNORANT I COULD HARDLY STAND TO HAVE THE OLD MAN AROUND. BUT WHEN I GOT TO BE 21, I WAS ASTONISHED AT HOW MUCH HE HAD LEARNED IN THE 7 YEARS.
57=WE ALL DO NO END OF FEELING, AND WE MISTAKE IT FOR THINKING.
58=LAST SPRING I STOPPED FROLICKING WITH MINCE PIE AFTER MIDNIGHT. UP TO THEN I HAD ALWAYS BELIEVED IT WASN'T LOADED.
59=IF ALL THE FOOLS IN THIS WORLD SHOULD DIE, LORDLY GOD HOW LONELY I SHOULD BE.
60=WHEN USING THAT LANGUAGE [FRENCH] I HAVE OFTEN NOTICED THAT I HAVE HARDLY EVER BEEN MISTAKEN FOR A FRENCHMAN, EXCEPT PERHAPS BY HORSES.
61=ETIQUETTE AT A FUNERAL: WHEN A BLOOD RELATIVE SOBS, AN INTIMATE FRIEND SHOULD CHOKE UP, A DISTANT ACQUAINTANCE SHOULD SIGH, A STRANGER SHOULD MERELY FUMBLE SYMPATHETICALLY WITH HIS HANDKERCHIEF.
62=THOUSANDS OF GENIUSES LIVE AND DIE UNDISCOVERED -- EITHER BY THEMSELVES OR BY OTHERS.
63=I WAS TRYING TO EXPLAIN TO ST. PETER, AND WAS DOING IT IN THE GERMAN TONGUE, BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO BE TOO EXPLICIT.
64=WE HAVE INFINITE TROUBLE IN SOLVING MAN-MADE MYSTERIES; IT IS ONLY WHEN WE SET OUT TO DISCOVER THE SECRET OF GOD THAT OUR DIFFICULTIES DISAPPEAR.
65=THERE'S A GOOD SPOT TUCKED AWAY SOMEWHERE IN EVERYBODY. YOU'LL BE A LONG TIME FINDING IT, SOMETIMES.
66=NOTHING THAT GRIEVES US CAN BE CALLED LITTLE; BY THE ETERNAL LAWS OF PROPORTION A CHILD'S LOSS OF A DOLL AND A KING'S LOSS OF A CROWN ARE EVENTS OF THE SAME SIZE.
67=I CAME IN WITH HALLEY'S COMET IN 1835. IT IS COMING AGAIN NEXT YEAR, AND I EXPECT TO GO OUT WITH IT. IT WILL BE THE GREATEST DISAPPOINTMENT OF MY LIFE IF I DON'T GO OUT WITH HALLEY'S COMET. [HE DID.]
68=YOU CAN'T REASON WITH YOUR HEART; IT HAS ITS OWN LAWS, AND THUMPS ABOUT THINGS WHICH THE INTELLECT SCORNS.
69=YES, EVEN I AM DISHONEST. NOT IN MANY WAYS, BUT IN SOME. FORTY-ONE, I THINK IT IS.
70=IT USED TO BE A GOOD HOTEL, BUT THAT MEANS NOTHING -- I USED TO BE A GOOD BOY.
71=THE PARTITIONS OF THE HOUSES WERE SO THIN WE COULD HEAR THE WOMEN OCCUPANTS OF ADJOINING ROOMS CHANGING THEIR MINDS.
72=THERE OUGHT TO BE A ROOM IN THIS HOUSE TO SWEAR IN. IT'S DANGEROUS TO HAVE TO REPRESS AN EMOTION LIKE THAT.
73=SUCH IS THE HUMAN RACE. OFTEN IT DOES SEEM SUCH A PITY THAT NOAH DIDN'T MISS THE BOAT.
74=IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE WHO WE ARE OR WHAT WE ARE, THERE'S ALWAYS SOMEBODY TO LOOK DOWN ON.
75=HUMOR MUST NOT PROFESSEDLY TEACH AND IT MUST NOT PROFESSEDLY PREACH, BUT IT MUST DO BOTH IF IT WOULD LIVE FOREVER.
76=LAUGHTER WITHOUT A TINGE OF PHILOSOPHY IS BUT A SNEEZE OF HUMOR. GENUINE HUMOR IS REPLETE WITH WISDOM.
77=HIS IGNORANCE COVERED THE WHOLE EARTH LIKE A BLANKET, AND THERE WAS HARDLY A HOLE IN IT ANYWHERE.
78=YOU CAN'T DEPEND ON YOUR EYES WHEN YOUR IMAGINATION IS OUT OF FOCUS.
79=I MUST HAVE A PRODIGIOUS QUANTITY OF MIND; IT TAKES ME AS MUCH AS A WEEK SOMETIMES TO MAKE IT UP.
80=THE WAY IT IS NOW, THE ASYLUMS CAN HOLD THE SANE PEOPLE, BUT IF WE TRIED TO SHUT UP THE INSANE WE SHOULD RUN OUT OF BUILDING MATERIALS.
81=YOU TAKE THE LIES OUT OF HIM, AND HE'LL SHRINK TO THE SIZE OF YOUR HAT; YOU TAKE THE MALICE OUT OF HIM, AND HE'LL DISAPPEAR.
82=IT WAS NOT LIVELY ENOUGH FOR A PLEASURE TRIP; BUT IF WE HAD ONLY HAD A CORPSE IT WOULD HAVE MADE A NOBLE FUNERAL EXCURSION.
83=A GREAT AND PRICELESS THING IS A NEW INTEREST! HOW IT TAKES POSSESSION OF A MAN! HOW IT CLINGS TO HIM, HOW IT RIDES HIM!
84=SUCH A LAUGH WAS MONEY IN A MAN'S POCKET, BECAUSE IT CUT DOWN ON THE DOCTOR'S BILLS LIKE EVERYTHING.
85=THERE IS NO END TO THE LAWS, AND NO BEGINNING TO THE EXECUTION OF THEM.
86=THEY ALL LAID THEIR HEADS TOGETHER LIKE AS MANY LAWYERS WHEN THEY ARE GETTING' READY TO PROVE THAT A MAN'S HEIRS AIN'T GOT ANY RIGHT TO HIS PROPERTY.
87=I AM NO LAZIER NOW THAN I WAS FORTY YEARS AGO, BUT THAT IS BECAUSE I REACHED THE LIMIT FORTY YEARS AGO.
88=A LIE CAN TRAVEL HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD WHILE THE TRUTH IS PUTTING ITS SHOES ON.
89=THE TROUBLE ISN'T THAT THERE ARE TOO MANY FOOLS, BUT THAT LIGHTNING ISN'T DISTRIBUTED RIGHT.
90=MY WORKS ARE LIKE WATER. THE WORKS OF THE GREAT MASTERS ARE LIKE WINE. BUT EVERYONE DRINKS WATER.
91=NO REAL GENTLEMAN WILL TELL THE NAKED TRUTH IN THE PRESENCE OF LADIES.
92=IT ISN'T SO ASTONISHING, THE NUMBER OF THINGS THAT I CAN REMEMBER, AS THE NUMBER OF THINGS I CAN REMEMBER THAT AREN'T SO.
93=THERE IS NOTHING MORE AWE-INSPIRING THAN A MIRACLE EXCEPT THE CREDULITY THAT CAN TAKE IT AT PAR.
94=IT IS NOT BEST THAT WE USE OUR MORALS WEEK DAYS; IT GETS THEM OUT OF REPAIR FOR SUNDAYS.
95=WHEN WE REMEMBER WE ARE ALL MAD, THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE DISAPPEAR AND LIFE STANDS EXPLAINED.
96=WHAT REMARKABLE NAMES THOSE DISEASES HAVE! IT MAKES ME ENVIOUS OF THE MAN THAT HAS THEM ALL.
97=ITS NAME IS PUBLIC OPINION. IT IS HELD IN REVERENCE. IT SETTLES EVERYTHING. SOME THINK IT IS THE VOICE OF GOD.
98=I WAS SELDOM ABLE TO SEE AN OPPORTUNITY UNTIL IT HAD CEASED TO BE ONE.
99=HE HAS BEEN A DOCTOR A YEAR NOW, AND HAS HAD TWO PATIENTS -- NO, THREE, I THINK; IT WAS THREE. I ATTENDED THEIR FUNERALS.
100=THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW ST. LOUIS, I COULD HAVE BOUGHT IT FOR SIX MILLION DOLLARS, AND IT WAS THE MISTAKE OF MY LIFE THAT I DID NOT DO IT.
[Sherlock Holmes]
Number=100
1="IT IS COCAINE," HE SAID, "A SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION. WOULD YOU CARE TO TRY IT?
2=HENCE THE COCAINE. I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT BRAINWORK. WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO LIVE FOR?
3=WHAT IS THE USE OF HAVING POWERS, DOCTOR, WHEN ONE HAS NO FIELD UPON WHICH TO EXERT THEM?
4=I KNOW, MY DEAR WATSON, THAT YOU SHARE MY LOVE OF ALL THAT IS BIZARRE AND OUTSIDE THE CONVENTIONS AND HUMDRUM ROUTINE OF EVERYDAY LIFE.
5=MY MIND IS LIKE A RACING ENGINE, TEARING ITSELF TO PIECES BECAUSE IT IS NOT CONNECTED UP WITH THE WORK FOR WHICH IT WAS BUILT.
6=YOU HAVE SHOWN YOUR RELISH ... TO CHRONICLE, AND, IF YOU WILL MY EXCUSE MY SAYING SO, SOMEWHAT TO EMBELLISH SO MANY OF MY OWN LITTLE ADVENTURES.
7=YOU HAVE A GRAND GIFT OF SILENCE, WATSON. IT MAKES YOU QUITE INVALUABLE AS A COMPANION.
8=I SHOULD SAY THAT ONLY A CLEAN-SHAVEN MAN COULD HAVE SMOKED THIS. WHY, WATSON, EVEN YOUR MODEST MOUSTACHE WOULD HAVE BEEN SINGED.
9=A CONFEDERATE ... TO WHOM EACH DEVELOPMENT COMES AS A PERPETUAL SURPRISE, AND TO WHOM THE FUTURE IS ALWAYS A CLOSED BOOK, IS, INDEED AN IDEAL HELPMATE.
10=YOUR MORALS DON'T IMPROVE, WATSON. YOU HAVE ADDED FIBBING TO YOUR OTHER VICES.
11=I NEVER GET YOUR LIMITS, WATSON ... THERE ARE UNEXPLORED POSSIBILITIES ABOUT YOU.
12=THERE IS A DELIGHTFUL FRESHNESS ABOUT YOU, WATSON, WHICH MAKES IT A PLEASURE TO EXERCISE ANY SMALL POWERS WHICH I MAY POSSESS AT YOUR EXPENSE.
13=YOU ARE DEVELOPING A CERTAIN VEIN OF PAWKY HUMOUR, WATSON, AGAINST WHICH I MUST LEARN TO GUARD MYSELF.
14=PERHAPS THERE ARE POINTS WHICH HAVE ESCAPED YOUR MACHIAVELLIAN INTELLECT.
15=MY DEAR FELLOW, LIFE IS INFINITELY STRANGER THAN ANYTHING WHICH THE MIND OF MAN COULD INVENT.
16=WE WOULD NOT DARE TO CONCEIVE THE THINGS WHICH ARE REALLY MERELY COMMONPLACES OF EXISTENCE.
17=YOU HAVE REALLY DONE VERY WELL INDEED. IT IS TRUE THAT YOU HAVE MISSED EVERYTHING OF IMPORTANCE.
18=DEPEND UPON IT, THERE IS NOTHING SO UNNATURAL AS THE COMMONPLACE.
19=A MAN SHOULD KEEP HIS LITTLE BRAIN ATTIC STOCKED WITH ALL THE FURNITURE THAT HE IS LIKELY TO USE, AND THE REST HE CAN PUT AWAY IN THE LUMBER-ROOM OF HIS LIBRARY, WHERE HE CAN GET IT IF HE WANTS IT.
20=IT IS ONE OF THOSE WHIMSICAL LITTLE INCIDENTS WHICH WILL HAPPEN WHEN YOU HAVE FOUR MILLION HUMAN BEINGS ALL JOSTLING EACH OTHER WITHIN THE SPACE OF A FEW SQUARE MILES.
21=AMID THE ACTION AND REACTION OF SO DENSE A SWARM OF HUMANITY, EVERY POSSIBLE COMBINATION OF EVENTS MAY BE EXPECTED TO TAKE PLACE.
22=I SUPPOSE THAT I AM COMMUTING A FELONY, BUT IT IS JUST POSSIBLE THAT I AM SAVING A SOUL.
23=HUMAN NATURE IS A STRANGE MIXTURE, WATSON. YOU SEE THAT A VILLAIN AND A MURDERER CAN INSPIRE SUCH AFFECTION THAT HIS BROTHER TURNS TO SUICIDE WHEN HE LEARNS THAT HIS NECK IS FORFEITED.
24=THERE IS NOTHING IN WHICH DEDUCTION IS SO NECESSARY AS IN RELIGION.
25=I THINK THAT I MAY GO SO FAR AS TO SAY, WATSON, THAT I HAVE NOT LIVED WHOLLY IN VAIN.
26=IN OVER A THOUSAND CASES I AM NOT AWARE THAT I HAVE EVER USED MY POWERS UPON THE WRONG SIDE.
27=OF LATE I HAVE BEEN TEMPTED TO LOOK INTO THE PROBLEMS FURNISHED BY NATURE RATHER THAN THOSE MORE SUPERFICIAL ONES FOR WHICH OUR ARTIFICIAL STATE OF SOCIETY IS RESPONSIBLE.
28=THERE ARE SOME TREES, WATSON, WHICH GROW TO A CERTAIN HEIGHT AND THEN SUDDENLY DEVELOP SOME UNSIGHTLY ECCENTRICITY. YOU SEE IT OFTEN IN HUMANS.
29=HOW SWEET THE MORNING AIR IS! ... HOW SMALL WE FEEL, WITH OUR PETTY AMBITIONS AND STRIVINGS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE GREAT ELEMENTAL FORCES OF NATURE.
30=THE CHIEF PROOF OF MAN'S REAL GREATNESS LIES IN HIS PERCEPTION OF HIS OWN SMALLNESS.
31=YOU CAN ... NEVER FORETELL WHAT ANY ONE MAN WILL DO, BUT YOU CAN SAY WITH PRECISION WHAT AN AVERAGE NUMBER WILL BE UP TO.
32=INDIVIDUALS VARY BUT PERCENTAGES REMAIN CONSTANT.
33=THE CLIENT IS TO ME A MERE UNIT, A FACTOR IN A PROBLEM. THE EMOTIONAL QUALITIES ARE ANTAGONISTIC TO CLEAR REASONING.
34=WHERE THERE IS NO IMAGINATION THERE IS NO HORROR.
35=TO A GREAT MIND, NOTHING IS LITTLE.
36=WHAT YOU DO IN THIS WORLD IS A MATTER OF NO CONSEQUENCE. THE QUESTION IS, WHAT YOU CAN MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE DONE.
37=SOME PEOPLE WITHOUT POSSESSING GENIUS HAVE A REMARKABLE POWER OF STIMULATING IT.
38=IN A MODEST WAY I HAVE COMBATED EVIL, BUT TO TAKE ON THE FATHER OF EVIL HIMSELF WOULD, PERHAPS, BE TOO AMBITIOUS A TASK.
39=WHEN ONE TRIES TO RISE ABOVE NATURE ONE IS LIABLE TO FALL BELOW IT.
40=I CANNOT AGREE WITH THOSE WHO RANK MODESTY AMONG THE VIRTUES.
41=TO A LOGICIAN ALL THINGS SHOULD BE SEEN EXACTLY AS THEY ARE, AND TO UNDERESTIMATE ONESELF IS AS MUCH A DEPARTURE FROM TRUTH AS TO EXAGGERATE ONE'S OWN POWERS.
42=TO LET THE BRAIN WORK WITHOUT SUFFICIENT MATERIAL IS LIKE RACING AN ENGINE. IT RACKS ITSELF TO PIECES.
43=IT IS A CAPITAL MISTAKE TO THEORIZE BEFORE ONE HAS DATA. INSENSIBLY ONE BEGINS TO TWIST FACTS TO SUIT THEORIES, INSTEAD OF THEORIES TO SUIT FACTS.
44=THE LARGER CRIMES ARE APT TO BE THE SIMPLER, FOR THE BIGGER THE CRIME, THE MORE OBVIOUS, AS A RULE, THE MOTIVE.
45=IT IS MY BUSINESS TO KNOW THINGS. PERHAPS I HAVE TRAINED MYSELF TO SEE WHAT OTHERS OVERLOOK.
46=IT HAS LONG BEEN AN AXIOM OF MINE THAT THE LITTLE THINGS ARE INFINITELY THE MOST IMPORTANT.
47=I CAN NEVER BRING YOU TO REALIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF SLEEVES, THE SUGGESTIVENESS OF THUMB-NAILS, OR THE GREAT ISSUES THAT MAY HANG FROM A BOOTLACE.
48=NEVER TRUST TO GENERAL IMPRESSIONS, MY BOYS, BUT CONCENTRATE YOURSELF UPON THE DETAILS.
49=SINGULARITY IS ALMOST INVARIABLY A CLUE. THE MORE FEATURELESS AND COMMONPLACE A CRIME IS, THE MORE DIFFICULT IT IS TO BRING HOME.
50=YOU KNOW MY METHOD. IT IS BASED UPON THE OBSERVATION OF TRIFLES.
51=ON THE CONTRARY, WATSON, YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING. YOU FAIL, HOWEVER, TO REASON FROM WHAT YOU SEE.
52=JUST SEE HOW IT GLINTS AND SPARKLES. OF COURSE IT IS A NUCLEUS AND FOCUS OF CRIME. EVERY GOOD STONE IS.
53=IN THE LARGER AND OLDER JEWELS EVERY FACET MAY STAND FOR A BLOODY DEED.
54=IT IS ALWAYS AWKWARD DOING BUSINESS WITH AN ALIAS.
55=WHEN A DOCTOR DOES GO WRONG HE IS THE FIRST OF CRIMINALS. HE HAS NERVE AND HE HAS KNOWLEDGE.
56=I HAD COME TO AN ENTIRELY ERRONEOUS CONCLUSION, WHICH SHOWS, MY DEAR WATSON, HOW DANGEROUS IT ALWAYS IS TO REASON FROM INSUFFICIENT DATA.
57=IT IS AN OLD MAXIM OF MINE THAT WHEN YOU HAVE EXCLUDED THE IMPOSSIBLE, WHATEVER REMAINS, HOWEVER IMPROBABLE, MUST BE THE TRUTH.
58=CRIME IS COMMON. LOGIC IS RARE.
59=THE DAYS OF THE GREAT CASES ARE PAST. MAN, OR AT LEAST CRIMINAL MAN, HAS LOST ALL ENTERPRISE AND ORIGINALITY.
60=I HAVE FREQUENTLY GAINED MY FIRST REAL INSIGHT INTO THE CHARACTER OF PARENTS BY STUDYING THEIR CHILDREN.
61=IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY HABIT TO HIDE NONE OF MY METHODS ... FROM ANYONE WHO MIGHT TAKE AN INTELLIGENT INTEREST IN THEM.
62=ELEMENTARY. IT IS ONE OF THOSE INSTANCES WHEN THE REASONER CAN PRODUCE AN EFFECT WHICH SEEMS REMARKABLE TO HIS NEIGHBOR, BECAUSE THE LATTER HAS MISSED THE ONE LITTLE POINT WHICH IS THE BASIS OF THE DEDUCTION.
63=YOU COME AT A CRISIS, WATSON. IF THIS PAPER REMAINS BLUE, ALL IS WELL. IF IT TURNS RED, IT MEANS A MAN'S LIFE. [A LITMUS TEST.]
64=THERE IS NO ONE WHO KNOWS THE HIGHER CRIMINAL WORLD OF LONDON SO WELL AS I DO.
65=FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE CRIMINAL EXPERT, LONDON HAS BECOME A SINGULARLY UNINTERESTING CITY SINCE THE DEATH OF THE LATE LAMENTED PROFESSOR MORIARTY.
66=THE FACULTY OF DEDUCTION IS CERTAINLY CONTAGIOUS, WATSON.
67=I CAN DISCOVER FACTS, WATSON, BUT I CANNOT CHANGE THEM.
68=EVERY PROBLEM BECOMES VERY CHILDISH WHEN ONCE IT IS EXPLAINED TO YOU.
69=I AM FAIRLY FAMILIAR WITH ALL FORMS OF SECRET WRITINGS, AND AM MYSELF THE AUTHOR OF A TRIFLING MONOGRAPH UPON THE SUBJECT.
70=A BICYCLE CERTAINLY, BUT NOT THE BICYCLE. I AM FAMILIAR WITH FORTY-TWO DIFFERENT IMPRESSIONS LEFT BY TYRES.
71=ONE SHOULD ALWAYS LOOK FOR A POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE AND PROVIDE AGAINST IT. IT IS THE FIRST RULE OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION.
72=I DON'T MIND CONFESSING TO YOU THAT I HAVE ALWAYS HAD AN IDEA THAT I WOULD HAVE MADE A HIGHLY EFFICIENT CRIMINAL.
73=I PROPOSE TO DEVOTE MY DECLINING YEARS TO THE COMPOSITION OF A TEXTBOOK WHICH SHALL FOCUS THE WHOLE ART OF DETECTION INTO ONE VOLUME.
74=PERHAPS WHEN A MAN HAS SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SPECIAL POWERS LIKE MY OWN IT RATHER ENCOURAGES HIM TO SEEK A COMPLEX EXPLANATION WHEN SIMPLER ONE IS AT HAND.
75=YOU WILL REMEMBER ... HOW THE DREADFUL BUSINESS OF THE ABERNATTY FAMILY WAS FIRST BROUGHT TO MY NOTICE BY THE DEPTH WHICH THE PARSLEY HAD SUNK INTO THE BUTTER ON A HOT DAY.
76=I CHOOSE TO BE ONLY ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE CRIMES WHICH PRESENT SOME DIFFICULTY IN THEIR SOLUTION.
77=WHEN YOU FOLLOW TWO SEPARATE CHAINS OF THOUGHT ... YOU WILL FIND SOME POINT OF INTERSECTION WHICH SHOULD APPROXIMATE THE TRUTH.
78=I NEVER MAKE EXCEPTIONS. AN EXCEPTION DISPROVES THE RULE.
79=THEY SAY THAT GENIUS IS AN INFINITE CAPACITY FOR TAKING PAINS.
80=WHEN A FACT APPEARS TO BE OPPOSED TO A LONG TRAIN OF DEDUCTIONS IT INVARIABLY PROVES TO BE CAPABLE OF BEARING SOME OTHER INTERPRETATION.
81=IT IS A CAPITAL MISTAKE TO THEORIZE BEFORE YOU HAVE ALL THE EVIDENCE.
82=IT IS A MISTAKE TO CONFOUND STRANGENESS WITH MYSTERY.
83=THERE'S A SCARLET THREAD OF MURDER RUNNING THROUGH THE COLOURLESS SKEIN OF LIFE, AND OUR DUTY IS TO UNRAVEL IT.
84=THERE IS NO BRANCH OF DETECTIVE SCIENCE WHICH IS SO IMPORTANT AND SO MUCH NEGLECTED AS THE ART OF TRACING FOOTSTEPS.
85=THE WORLD IS FULL OF OBVIOUS THINGS WHICH NOBODY BY ANY CHANCE EVER OBSERVES.
86=THERE IS NOTHING MORE STIMULATING THAN A CASE WHERE EVERYTHING GOES AGAINST YOU.
87=WOMEN ARE NATURALLY SECRETIVE, AND THEY LIKE TO DO THEIR OWN SECRETING.
88=YOU MAY REMEMBER THE OLD PERSIAN SAYING, "THERE IS DANGER FOR HIM WHO TAKETH THE TIGER CUB, AND DANGER ALSO FOR WHOSO SNATCHES A DELUSION FROM A WOMAN."
89=THERE ARE WOMEN IN WHOM THE LOVE OF A LOVER EXTINGUISHES ALL OTHER LOVES.
90=THE MOTIVES OF WOMEN ARE SO INSCRUTABLE. ... HOW CAN YOU BUILD ON SUCH QUICKSAND.
91=WOMAN'S HEART AND MIND ARE INSOLUBLE PUZZLES TO THE MALE. MURDER MIGHT BE CONDONED OR EXPLAINED, AND YET SOME SMALLER OFFENSE MIGHT RANKLE.
92=WOMEN ARE NEVER TO BE ENTIRELY TRUSTED, NOT THE BEST OF THEM.
93=IS NOT LIFE PATHETIC AND FUTILE? ... WE REACH. WE GRASP. AND WHAT IS LEFT IN OUR HANDS AT THE END? A SHADOW. OR WORSE THAN A SHADOW -- A MISERY.
94=LOVE IS AN EMOTIONAL THING ... OPPOSED TO TRUE COLD REASON. I SHOULD NEVER MARRY ... LEST I BIAS MY JUDGMENT.
95=IT IS QUITE A THREE-PIPE PROBLEM, AND I BEG THAT YOU WON'T SPEAK TO ME FOR FIFTY MINUTES.
96=THE PRESS ... IS A MOST VALUABLE INSTITUTION, IF YOU ONLY KNOW HOW TO USE IT.
97=A MAN ALWAYS FINDS IT HARD TO REALIZE THAT HE MAY HAVE FINALLY LOST A WOMAN'S LOVE, HOWEVER BADLY HE MAY HAVE TREATED HER.
98=MY EYES HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO OBSERVE FACES AND NOT THEIR TRIMMINGS.
99=WHAT IS THE MEANING OF IT? WHAT OBJECT IS SERVED BY THIS CIRCLE OF MISERY AND VIOLENCE AND FEAR.
100=THE WAYS OF FATE ARE INDEED HARD TO UNDERSTAND. IT THERE IS NOT SOME COMPENSATION HEREAFTER, THEN THE WORLD IS A CRUEL JEST.
[Old Testament]
Number=100
1=IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH.
2=AND THE LORD GOD FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND, AND BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE; AND MAN BECAME A LIVING SOUL.
3=THEREFORE, SHALL A MAN LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, AND SHALL CLEAVE UNTO HIS WIFE: AND THEY SHALL BE ONE FLESH.
4=NOW THE SERPENT WAS MORE SUBTLE THAN ANY BEAST OF THE FIELD.
5=AND THE RAIN WAS UPON THE EARTH FOR FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS.
6=WHOSO SHEDDETH MAN'S BLOOD, BY MAN SHALL HIS BLOOD BE SHED.
7=BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY, AND REPLENISH THE EARTH, AND SUBDUE IT.
8=AND ABEL WAS A KEEPER OF SHEEP, BUT CAIN WAS A TILLER OF THE GROUND.
9=AND ALL THE DAYS OF METHUSELAH WERE NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY NINE YEARS.
10=AND OF EVERY LIVING THING OF ALL FLESH, TWO OF EVERY SORT SHALT THOU BRING INTO THE ARK.
11=BUT HIS WIFE LOOKED BACK FROM BEHIND HIM, AND SHE BECAME A PILLAR OF SALT.
12=AND GOD SAID UNTO MOSES, I AM THAT I AM.
13=THOU SHALT NOT COVET THEY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE, THOU SHALT NOT COVET THEY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE.
14=EYE FOR EYE, TOOTH FOR TOOTH, HAND FOR HAND, FOOT FOR FOOT.
15=THOU CANST NOT SEE MY FACE, FOR THERE SHALL NO MAN SEE ME AND LIVE.
16=THE LORD OPENED THE MOUTH OF THE ASS, AND SHE SAID UNTO BALAAM, WHAT HAVE I DONE UNTO THEE?
17=MAN DOTH NOT LIVE BY BREAD ONLY, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE LORD DOTH MAN LIVE.
18=BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE; BE NOT AFRAID, NEITHER BE THOU DISMAYED.
19=SUN, STAND THOU STILL UPON GIBEON; AND THOU, MOON, IN THE VALLEY OF AJALON.
20=WITH THE JAWBONE OF AN ASS ... HAVE I SLAIN A THOUSAND MEN.
21=SO DAVID PREVAILED OVER THE PHILISTINE WITH A SLING AND WITH A STONE.
22=FOR WE MUST NEEDS DIE, AND ARE AS WATER SPILT ON THE GROUND, WHICH CANNOT BE GATHERED UP AGAIN.
23=THE LORD IS MY ROCK, AND MY FORTRESS, AND MY DELIVERER.
24=MAN IS BORN INTO TROUBLE, AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARD.
25=BUT NOW ASK THE BEASTS, AND THEY SHALL TEACH THEE; AND THE FOWLS OF THE AIR, THEY SHALL TELL THEE.
26=MAN THAT IS BORN OF WOMAN IS OF FEW DAYS, AND FULL OF TROUBLE.
27=BUT MAN DIETH, AND WASTETH AWAY; YEA, MAN GIVETH UP THE GHOST, AND WHERE IS HE? .. IF A MAN DIE, SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN?
28=AND THOUGH, AFTER MY SKIN, WORMS DESTROY THIS BODY, YET IN MY FLESH SHALL I SEE GOD.
29=BEHOLD NOW BEHEMOTH, WHICH I MADE WITH THEE; HE EATETH GRASS AS AN OX.
30=CANST THOU DRAW OUT LEVIATHAN WITH A HOOK?
31=BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT WALKETH NOT IN THE COUNSEL OF THE UNGODLY, NOR STANDETH IN THE WAY OF SINNERS, NOR SITTETH IN THE SEAT OF THE SCORNFUL.
32=OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES AND SUCKLINGS HAST THOU ORDAINED STRENGTH.
33=KEEP ME AS THE APPLE OF THY EYE, HIDE ME UNDER THE SHADOW OF THY WINGS.
34=WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME? WHY ART THOU SO FAR FROM HELPING ME, AND FROM THE WORDS OF MY ROARING.
35=THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD; I SHALL NOT WANT.
36=HE MAKETH ME LIE DOWN IN GREEN PASTURES; HE LEADETH ME BESIDE THE STILL WATERS.
37=HE RESTORETH MY SOUL; HE LEADETH ME IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE.
38=YEA, THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, I WILL FEAR NO EVIL; FOR THOU ART WITH ME; THY ROD AND THY STAFF THEY COMFORT ME.
39=THOU PREPAREST A TABLE BEFORE ME IN THE PRESENCE OF MINE ENEMIES; THOU ANOINTEST MY HEAD WITH OIL; MY CUP RUNNETH OVER.
40=SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY SHALL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE; AND I WILL DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOR EVER.
41=THE LORD IS MY LIGHT AND MY SALVATION; WHOM SHALL I FEAR? THE LORD IS THE STRENGTH OF MY LIFE; OF WHOM SHALL I BE AFRAID?
42=BUT THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH; AND SHALL DELIGHT THEMSELVES IN THE ABUNDANCE OF PEACE.
43=OH THAT I HAD WINGS LIKE A DOVE! FOR THEN WOULD I FLY AWAY, AND BE AT REST.
44=THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH WERE SMOOTHER THAN BUTTER, BUT WAR WAS IN HIS HEART; HIS WORDS WERE SOFTER THAN OIL, YET WERE THEY DRAWN SWORDS.
45=HE ONLY IS MY ROCK AND MY SALVATION: HE IS MY DEFENSE; I SHALL NOT BE MOVED.
46=CAST ME OFF NOT IN THE TIME OF OLD AGE; FORSAKE ME NOT WHEN MY STRENGTH FAILETH.
47=HE SHALL COME DOWN LIKE RAIN UPON THE MOWN GRASS; AS SHOWERS THAT WATER THE EARTH.
48=THE DAYS OF OUR YEARS ARE THREESCORE YEARS AND TEN; .. FOR IT IS SOON CUT OFF, AND WE FLY AWAY.
49=THIS IS THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HATH MADE; WE WILL REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT.
50=I WILL PRAISE THEE; FOR I AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE; MARVELOUS ARE THEY WORKS.
51=FOR THE LIPS OF A STRANGE WOMAN DROP AS AN HONEYCOMB, AND HER MOUTH IS SMOOTHER THAN OIL; BUT HER END IS BITTER AS WORMWOOD, SHARP AS A TWO-EDGED SWORD.
52=THE PATH OF THE JUST IS AS THE SHINING LIGHT, THAT SHINETH MORE AND MORE UNTO THE PERFECT DAY.
53=WISDOM IS THE PRINCIPAL THING; THEREFORE GET WISDOM: AND WITH ALL THE GETTING GET UNDERSTANDING.
54=GO TO THE ANT, THOU SLUGGARD; CONSIDER HER WAYS, AND BE WISE.
55=LUST NOT AFTER HER BEAUTY IN THINE HEART; NEITHER LET HER TAKE THEE WITH HER EYELIDS.
56=CAN A MAN TAKE FIRE IN HIS BOSOM, AND HIS CLOTHES NOT BE BURNED? CAN ONE GO UPON HOT COALS, AND HIS FEET NOT BE BURNED?
57=A RIGHTEOUS MAN REGARDETH THE LIFE OF HIS BEAST: BUT THE TENDER MERCIES OF THE WICKED ARE CRUEL.
58=THE WAY OF A FOOL IS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES: BUT HE THAT HARKENETH UNTO COUNSEL IS WISE.
59=THE LIP OF TRUTH SHALL BE ESTABLISHED FOR EVER: BUT A LYING TONGUE IS BUT FOR A MOMENT.
60=HE THAT SPARETH HIS ROD HATETH HIS SON: BUT HE THAT LOVETH HIM CHASTENETH HIM BETIMES.
61=A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH: BUT GRIEVOUS WORDS STIR UP ANGER.
62=A MERRY HEART MAKETH A CHEERFUL COUNTENANCE: BUT BY SORROW OF THE HEART THE SPIRIT IS BROKEN.
63=BETTER IS A DINNER OF HERBS WHERE LOVE IS, THAN A STALLED OX AND HATRED THEREWITH.
64=PRIDE GOETH BEFORE DESTRUCTION, AND AN HAUGHTY SPIRIT BEFORE A FALL.
65=A MERRY HEART DOETH GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE: BUT A BROKEN SPIRIT DRIETH THE BONES.
66=EVEN A FOOL, WHEN HE HOLDETH HIS PEACE, IS COUNTED WISE: AND HE THAT SHUTTETH HIS LIPS IS ESTEEMED A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING.
67=A FOOL'S MOUTH IS HIS DESTRUCTION, AND HIS LIPS ARE THE SNARE OF HIS SOUL.
68=WHOSO FINDETH A WIFE FINDETH A GOOD THING, AND OBTAINETH FAVOR OF THE LORD.
69=EVEN A CHILD IS KNOWN BY HIS DOINGS, WHETHER HIS WORK BE PURE, WHETHER IT BE RIGHT.
70=TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO: AND WHEN HE IS OLD, HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT.
71=A WORD FITLY SPOKEN IS LIKE APPLES OF GOLD IN PICTURES OF SILVER.
72=AS A DOG RETURNETH TO HIS VOMIT, SO A FOOL RETURNETH TO HIS FOLLY.
73=WHOSO DIGGETH A PIT SHALL FALL THEREIN: AND HE THAT ROLLETH A STONE, IT WILL RETURN UPON HIM.
74=BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TOMORROW; FOR THOU KNOWEST NOT WHAT A DAY MAY BRING FORTH.
75=FAITHFUL ARE THE WOUNDS OF A FRIEND; BUT THE KISSES OF AN ENEMY ARE DECEITFUL.
76=THE FULL SOUL LOATHETH AN HONEYCOMB, BUT TO THE HUNGRY SOUL EVERY BITTER THING IS SWEET.
77=IN MUCH WISDOM IS MUCH GRIEF; AND HE THAT INCREASETH KNOWLEDGE INCREASETH SORROW.
78=TO EVERY THING THERE IS A SEASON, AND A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE UNDER THE HEAVEN.
79=A TIME TO BE BORN, AND A TIME TO DIE; A TIME TO PLANT, AND A TIME TO PLUCK UP THAT WHICH WAS PLANTED.
80=A TIME TO WEEP, AND A TIME TO LAUGH; A TIME TO MOURN, AND A TIME TO DANCE.
81=A TIME TO CAST AWAY STONES, AND A TIME TO GATHER STONES TOGETHER; A TIME TO EMBRACE, AND A TIME TO REFRAIN FROM EMBRACING.
82=GOD IS IN HEAVEN, AND THOU UPON EARTH: THEREFORE LET THY WORDS BE FEW.
83=THE SLEEP OF THE LABOURING MAN IS SWEET .. BUT THE ABUNDANCE OF THE RICH WILL NOT SUFFER HIM TO SLEEP.
84=THEN I COMMENDETH MIRTH, BECAUSE A MAN HATH NO BETTER THING UNDER THE SUN, THAN TO EAT, AND TO DRINK, AND TO BE MERRY.
85=THE RACE IS NOT TO THE SWIFT, NOR THE BATTLE TO THE STRONG, NEITHER YET BREAD TO THE WISE ... BUT TIME AND CHANCE HAPPENETH TO THEM ALL.
86=HE THAT TROUBLETH HIS OWN HOUSE SHALL INHERIT THE WIND.
87=THEY SHALL BEAT THEIR SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES, AND THEIR SPEARS INTO PRUNINGHOOKS: NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE.
88=WHAT MEAN YE THAT YE BEAT MY PEOPLE TO PIECES AND GRIND THE FACES OF THE POOR?
89=WOE UNTO THEM THAT RISE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING, THAT THEY MAY FOLLOW STRONG DRINK.
90=WOE ONTO THEM THAT CALL EVIL GOOD, AND GOOD EVIL.
91=WOE IS ME! FOR I AM UNDONE; BECAUSE I AM A MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS, AND I DWELL IN THE MIDST OF PEOPLE OF UNCLEAN LIPS.
92=BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL CONCEIVE, AND BEAR A SON, AND SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL.
93=FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN, UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN; .. AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, THE MIGHTY GOD, THE EVERLASTING FATHER, THE PRINCE OF PEACE.
94=AND I WILL PUNISH THE WORLD FOR THEIR EVIL, AND THE WICKED FOR THEIR INIQUITY.
95=THEN THE EYES OF THE BLIND SHALL BE OPENED, AND THE EARS OF THE DEAF SHALL BE UNSTOPPED.
96=HEAR NOW THIS, FOOLISH PEOPLE, AND WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING; WHICH HAVE EYES, AND SEE NOT; WHICH HAVE EARS, AND HEAR NOT.
97=SHE WEEPETH SORE IN THE NIGHT, AND HER TEARS ARE ON HER CHEEKS; AMONG ALL HER LOVERS SHE HATH NONE TO COMFORT HER.
98=IT IS GOOD FOR A MAN THAT HE BEAR THE YOKE IN HIS YOUTH.
99=THEY BROUGHT DANIEL, AND CAST HIM INTO THE DEN OF LIONS.
100=AND JONAH WAS IN THE BELLY OF THE FISH THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS.
[New Testament]
Number=100
1=BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD, AND SHALL BRING FORTH A SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME EMMANUAL, WHICH BEING INTERPRETED IS, GOD WITH US.
2=NOW WHEN JESUS WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM OF JUDEA IN THE DAYS OF HEROD THE KING, BEHOLD, THERE CAME WISE MEN FROM THE EAST TO JERUSALEM.
3=FOLLOW ME, AND I WILL MAKE YOU FISHERS OF MEN.
4=BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT; FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
5=BLESSED ARE THE MEEK; FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH.
6=BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS; FOR THEY SHALL BE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD.
7=LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE BEFORE MEN, THAT THEY MAY SEE YOUR GOOD WORKS, AND GLORIFY YOUR FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.
8=WHOSOEVER LOOKETH ON A WOMAN TO LUST AFTER HER HATH COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH HER ALREADY IN HIS HEART.
9=LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, BLESS THEM THAT CURSE YOU, DO GOOD TO THEM THAT HATE YOU, AND PRAY FOR THEM WHICH DESPITEFULLY USE YOU, AND PERSECUTE YOU.
10=ASK, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN TO YOU; SEEK, AND YE SHALL FIND; KNOCK, AND IT SHALL BE OPENED TO YOU.
11=THEREFORE, ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER YE WOULD THAT MEN SHOULD DO TO YOU, DO YE EVEN SO TO THEM.
12=BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS, WHICH COME TO YOU IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING, BUT INWARDLY THEY ARE RAVENING WOLVES.
13=BE OF GOOD CHEER, IT IS I; BE NOT AFRAID.
14=THEY BE BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND. AND IF THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND, BOTH SHALL FALL INTO THE DITCH.
15=THOU ART PETER, AND UPON THIS ROCK I SHALL BUILD MY CHURCH; AND THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.
16=WHAT THEREFORE GOD HATH JOINED TOGETHER, LET NOT MAN PUT ASUNDER.
17=IT IS EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GO THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE, THAN FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
18=RENDER THEREFORE UNTO CAESAR THE THINGS WHICH ARE CAESAR'S; AND UNTO GOD THE THINGS THAT ARE GOD'S.
19=FOR I WAS AN HUNGERED, AND YE GAVE ME MEAT; I WAS THIRSTY, AND YE GAVE ME DRINK; I WAS A STRANGER, AND YE TOOK ME IN.
20=VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT ONE OF YOU SHALL BETRAY ME.
21=JESUS TOOK BREAD, AND BLESSED IT, AND BRAKE IT, AND GAVE IT TO THE DISCIPLES, AND SAID. TAKE, EAT; THIS IS MY BODY.
22=AND HE TOOK THE CUP, AND GAVE THANKS, AND GAVE IT TO THEM, SAYING DRINK YE ALL OF IT; FOR THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS.
23=GO YE THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY GHOST.
24=THERE COMETH ONE MIGHTIER THAN I AFTER ME, THE LATCHET OF WHOSE SHOES I AM NOT WORTHY TO STOOP DOWN AND UNLOOSE.
25=IF A HOUSE BE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF, THAT HOUSE CANNOT STAND.
26=HE HATH PUT DOWN THE MIGHTY FROM THEIR SEATS, AND EXALTED THEM OF LOW DEGREE.
27=AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRSTBORN SON, AND WRAPPED HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTHES, AND LAID HIM IN A MANGER; BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR THEM IN THE INN.
28=FOR UNTO WHOMSOEVER MUCH IS GIVEN, OF HIM SHALL MUCH BE REQUIRED; AND TO WHOM MEN HAVE COMMITTED MUCH, OF HIM THEY WILL ASK THE MORE.
29=FATHER, FORGIVE THEM; FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.
30=IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD.
31=AND THE LIGHT SHINETH IN THE DARKNESS; AND THE DARKNESS COMPREHENDED IT NOT.
32=GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.
33=I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD; HE THAT FOLLOWETH ME SHALL NOT WALK IN DARKNESS, BUT SHALL HAVE THE LIGHT OF LIFE.
34=HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN AMONG YOU, LET HIM FIRST CAST A STONE AT HER.
35=I AM THE RESURRECTION, AND THE LIFE: HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME, THOUGH HE WERE DEAD, YET SHALL HE LIVE: AND WHOSOEVER LIVETH AND BELIEVETH IN ME SHALL NEVER DIE.
36=I WILL COME AGAIN, AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF; THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE ALSO.
37=PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU, MY PEACE I GIVE UNTO YOU: NOT AS THE WORLD GIVETH, GIVE I UNTO YOU. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED, NEITHER LET IT BE AFRAID.
38=GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.
39=THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH; BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE.
40=VENGENCE IS MINE; I WILL REPAY, SAITH THE LORD.
41=EVERY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE MADE MANIFEST; FOR THE DAY SHALL DECLARE IT, BECAUSE IT SHALL BE REVEALED BY FIRE; AND THE FIRE SHALL TRY EVERY MAN'S WORK OF WHAT SORT IT IS.
42=WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I SPAKE AS A CHILD, I UNDERSTOOD AS A CHILD, I THOUGHT AS A CHILD; BUT WHEN I BECAME A MAN, I PUT AWAY CHILDISH THINGS.
43=FOR NOW WE SEE THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, BUT THEN FACE TO FACE; NOW I KNOW IN PART; BUT THEN SHALL I KNOW EVEN ALSO AS I AM KNOWN.
44=AND NOW ABIDETH FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY, THOSE THREE; BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE IS CHARITY.
45=BEHOLD, I SHOW YOU A MYSTERY; WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED.
46=IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMP; FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED.
47=O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING? O GRAVE, WHERE IS THY VICTORY?
48=NEITHER CAST YE YOUR PEARLS BEFORE SWINE.
49=BE NOT DECEIVED; GOD IS NOT MOCKED: FOR WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH, THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP.
50=THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK, AND POWERFUL, AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD, PIERCING EVEN TO THE DIVIDING ASUNDER OF SOUL AND SPIRIT, AND OF THE JOINTS AND MARROW ...
51=BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT ENDURETH TEMPTATION: FOR WHEN HE IS TRIED, HE SHALL RECEIVE THE CROWN OF LIFE.
52=BE YE DOERS OF THE WORD, AND NOT HEARERS ONLY.
53=WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? IT IS EVEN A VAPOUR, THAT APPEARETH FOR A LITTLE TIME, AND THEN VANISHETH AWAY.
54=IF WE SAY WE HAVE NO SIN, WE DECEIVE OURSELVES, AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN US.
55=I AM HE THAT LIVETH, AND WAS DEAD; AND, BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE FOR EVERMORE.
56=THE FIRST BEAST WAS LIKE A LION, AND THE SECOND BEAST LIKE A CALF, AND THE THIRD BEAST HAD A FACE AS A MAN, AND THE FOURTH BEAST WAS LIKE A FLYING EAGLE.
57=BEHOLD A PALE HORSE: AND HIS NAME THAT SAT ON HIM WAS DEATH, AND HELL FOLLOWED HIM
58=FOUR ANGELS STANDING ON THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH, HOLD THE FOUR WINDS OF THE EARTH.
59=THESE ARE THEY WHICH CAME OUT OF GREAT TRIBULATION, AND HAVE WASHED THEIR ROBES, AND MADE THEM WHITE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
60=THE GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST OUT, THAT OLD SERPENT, CALLED THE DEVIL, AND SATAN, WHICH DECEIVETH THE WHOLE WORLD.
61=I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH: FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED AWAY; AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA.
62=GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM THEIR EYES; AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH, NEITHER SORROW, NOR CRYING, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE ANY MORE PAIN.
63=I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END, THE FIRST AND THE LAST.
64=I HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT, I HAVE FINISHED MY COURSE, I HAVE KEPT THE FAITH.
65=THEY SAW THE YOUNG CHILD WITH MARY HIS MOTHER, AND FELL DOWN, AND WORSHIPPED HIM; AND ... THEY PRESENTED UNTO HIM GIFTS; GOLD, AND FRANKINCENSE, AND MYRRH.
66=BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH DO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS; FOR THEY SHALL BE FILLED.
67=BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL; FOR THEY SHALL OBTAIN MERCY.
68=BLESSED ARE THE PURE OF HEART; FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD.
69=BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH ARE PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' SAKE; FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
70=AFTER THIS MANNER THEREFORE PRAY YE: OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME.
71=AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
72=JUDGE NOT, THAT YE BE NOT JUDGED.
73=THE FOXES HAVE HOLES, AND THE BIRDS OF THE AIR HAVE NESTS; BUT THE SON OF MAN HATH NOT WHERE TO LAY HIS HEAD.
74=AND THEY DID ALL EAT, AND WERE FILLED: AND THEY TOOK UP OF THE FRAGMENTS THAT REMAINED TWELVE BASKETS FULL.
75=FOR WHAT IS A MAN PROFITED, IF HE SHALL GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD, AND LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?
76=MANY ARE CALLED, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN.
77=WHOSOEVER SHALL EXALT HIMSELF SHALL BE ABASED; AND HE THAT SHALL HUMBLE HIMSELF SHALL BE EXALTED.
78=HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY, BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY.
79=FOR THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS.
80=ALL THEY THAT TAKE THE SWORD SHALL PERISH WITH THE SWORD.
81=FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOR, WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD.
82=FOR THIS MY SON WAS DEAD, AND IS ALIVE AGAIN; HE WAS LOST, AND IS FOUND.
83=IT WERE BETTER FOR HIM THAT A MILLSTONE WERE HANGED ABOUT HIS NECK, AND HE CAST INTO THE SEA.
84=JESUS WEPT.
85=EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN AGAIN, HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
86=I AM COME THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE LIFE, AND THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY.
87=AND WHOSOEVER LIVETH AND BELIEVETH IN ME SHALL NEVER DIE.
88=YET A LITTLE WHILE IS THE LIGHT WITH YOU. WALK WHILE YE HAVE THE LIGHT, LEST DARKNESS COME UPON YOU.
89=BLESSED ARE THEY THAT HAVE NOT SEEN, AND YET HAVE BELIEVED.
90=AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES.
91=IF IT BE POSSIBLE, AS MUCH AS LIETH IN YOU, LIVE PEACEABLY WITH ALL MEN.
92=BE NOT OVERCOME OF EVIL, BUT OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD.
93=RENDER THEREFORE TO ALL THEIR DUES: TRIBUTE TO WHOM TRIBUTE IS DUE; CUSTOM TO WHOM CUSTOM; FEAR TO WHOM FEAR; HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR.
94=THE NIGHT IS FAR SPENT, THE DAY IS AT HAND: LET US THEREFORE CAST OFF THE WORKS OF DARKNESS, AND LET US PUT ON THE ARMOUR OF LIGHT.
95=FOR WHETHER WE LIVE, WE LIVE UNTO THE LORD; AND WHETHER WE DIE, WE DIE UNTO THE LORD; WHETHER WE LIVE THEREFORE, OR DIE, WE ARE THE LORD'S.
96=WE THEN THAT ARE STRONG OUGHT TO BEAR THE INFIRMITIES OF THE WEAK, AND NOT TO PLEASE OURSELVES.
97=GOD HAS CHOSEN THE FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD TO CONFOUND THE WISE; AND GOD HATH CHOSEN THE WEAK THINGS OF THE WORLD TO CONFOUND THE THINGS WHICH ARE MIGHTY.
98=LET HIM THAT THINKETH HE STANDETH TAKE HEED LEST HE FALL.
99=ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL FOR ME, BUT ALL THINGS ARE NOT EXPEDIENT.
100=IF A WOMAN HAVE LONG HAIR, IT IS A GLORY TO HER.
[Shakespeare]
Number=100
1=UNBIDDEN GUESTS ARE OFTEN WELCOMEST WHEN THEY ARE GONE.
2=FOR WHAT IS WEDLOCK FORCED, BUT A HELL, AN AGE OF DISCORD AND CONTINUAL STRIFE. WHEREAS THE CONTRARY BRINGETH BLISS, AND IS A PATTERN OF CELESTIAL PEACE.
3=NOW 'TIS THE SPRING, AND WEEDS ARE SHALLOW ROOTED; SUFFER THEM NOW AND THEY'LL O'ERGROW THE GARDEN.
4=THE FIRST THING WE DO, LET'S KILL ALL THE LAWYERS.
5=MY CROWN IS IN MY HEART, NOT ON MY HEAD; NOT DECK'D WITH DIAMONDS AND INDIAN STONES, NOT TO BE SEEN: MY CROWN IS CALL'D CONTENT; A CROWN IT IS THAT SELDOM KINGS ENJOY.
6=YIELD NOT THY NECK TO FORTUNE'S YOKE, BUT LET THY DAUNTLESS MIND STILL RIDE IN TRIUMPH OVER ALL MISCHANCE.
7=SO PART WE SADLY IN THIS TROUBLOUS WORLD TO MEET WITH JOY IN SWEET JERUSALEM.
8=NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT MADE GLORIOUS SUMMER BY THIS SUN OF YORK.
9=LOOK, HOW MY RING ENCOMPASSETH THY FINGER, EVEN SO THY BEAST ENCLOSETH MY POOR HEART; WEAR BOTH OF THEM, FOR BOTH OF THEM ARE THINE.
10=TRUE HOPE IS SWIFT, AND FLIES LIKE SWALLOWS WINGS; KINGS IT MAKES GODS, AND MEANER CREATURES KINGS.
11=CONSCIENCE IS BUT A WORD THAT COWARDS USE, DEVIS'D AT FIRST TO KEEP THE STRONG IN AWE.
12=A HORSE! A HORSE! MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE!
13=THE VENOM CLAMORS OF A JEALOUS WOMAN POISON MORE DEADLY THAN A MAD DOG'S TOOTH.
14=TUT! I HAVE DONE A THOUSAND DREADFUL THINGS AS WILLINGLY AS ONE WOULD KILL A FLY.
15=ASSES ARE MADE TO BEAR, AND SO ARE YOU.
16=FOR HE BEING DEAD, WITH HIM IS BEAUTY SLAIN, AND, BEAUTY DEAD, BLACK CHAOS COMES AGAIN.
17=WHO BUYS A MINUTE'S MIRTH TO WAIL A WEEK? OR SELLS ETERNITY TO GET A TOY? FOR ONE SWEET GRAPE WHO WILL THE VINE DESTROY.
18=O! HOW THIS SPRING OF LOVE RESEMBLETH THE UNCERTAIN GLORY OF AN APRIL DAY!
19=O JEST UNSEEN, INSCRUTABLE, INVISIBLE, AS A NOSE ON A MAN'S FACE, OR A WEATHERCOCK ON A STEEPLE.
20=BY HEAVEN, I DO LOVE, AND IT HATH TAUGHT ME TO RIME, AND TO BE MELANCHOLY.
21=SEE! HOW SHE LEANS HER CHEEK UPON HER HAND: O! THAT I WERE A GLOVE UPON THAT HAND, THAT I MIGHT TOUCH THAT CHEEK.
22=O ROMEO, ROMEO! WHEREFORE ART THOU ROMEO?
23=WHAT'S IN A NAME? THAT WHICH WE CALL A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD SMELL AS SWEET.
24=THIS BUD OF LOVE, BY SUMMER'S RIPENING BREATH, MAY PROVE A BEAUTEOUS FLOWER WHEN NEXT WE MEET.
25=GOOD NIGHT, GOOD NIGHT! PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW, THAT I SHALL SAY GOOD NIGHT TILL IT BE MORROW.
26=A PLAGUE ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES! THEY HAVE MADE WORM'S MEAT OF ME.
27=IS THERE NO PITY SITTING IN THE CLOUDS, THAT SEES INTO THE BOTTOM OF MY GRIEF?
28='TIS AN ILL COOK THAT CANNOT LICK HIS OWN FINGERS.
29=FOR NEVER WAS A STORY OF MORE WOE THAN THIS OF JULIET AND ROMEO.
30=I COUNT MYSELF IN NOTHING ELSE SO HAPPY AS A SOUL REMEMBERING MY GOOD FRIENDS.
31=LET'S TALK OF GRAVES, OF WORMS, AND EPITAPHS; MAKE DUST OUR PAPER, AND WITH RAINY EYES WRITE SORROW ON THE BOSOM OF THE EARTH; LET'S CHOOSE EXECUTORS AND TALK OF WILLS.
32=AND NOTHING CAN WE CALL OUR OWN BUT DEATH, AND THAT SMALL MODEL OF THE BARREN EARTH WHICH SERVES AS PASTE AND COVER TO OUR BONES.
33=AND MY LARGE KINGDOM FOR A LITTLE GRAVE, A LITTLE GRAVE, AN OBSCURE GRAVE.
34=I WASTED TIME, AND NOW DOTH TIME WASTE ME; FOR NOW HATH TIME MADE ME HIS NUMBERING CLOCK; MY THOUGHTS ARE MINUTES.
35=WITH THE HELP OF A SURGEON, HE MIGHT YET RECOVER, AND PROVE AN ASS.
36=THE IRON TONGUE OF MIDNIGHT HATH TOLD TWELVE; LOVER, TO BED; 'TIS ALMOST FAIRY TIME.
37=IF TO DO WERE AS EASY AS TO KNOW WHAT WERE GOOD TO DO, CHAPELS HAD BEEN CHURCHES, AND POOR MEN'S COTTAGES PRINCES' PALACES.
38=MY MEANING IN SAYING HE IS A GOOD MAN IS TO HAVE YOU UNDERSTAND ME THAT HE IS SUFFICIENT.
39=I AM A JEW. HATH NOT A JEW EYES? HATH NOT A JEW HANDS, ORGANS, DIMENSIONS, SENSES, AFFECTIONS, PASSIONS?
40=IF YOU PRICK US, DO WE NOT BLEED? IF YOU TICKLE US, DO WE NOT LAUGH? IF YOU POISON US, DO WE NOT DIE? AND IF YOU WRONG US, SHALL WE NOT REVENGE?
41=THERE IS NO VICE SO SIMPLE BUT ASSUMES SOME MARK OF VIRTUE ON HIS OUTWARD PARTS.
42=THOU CALLEDST ME DOG BEFORE THOU HADST A CAUSE, BUT, SINCE I AM A DOG, BEWARE OF FANGS.
43=THE QUALITY OF MERCY IS NOT STRAINED, IT DROPPETH AS THE GENTLE RAIN FROM HEAVEN.
44=TO DO A GREAT RIGHT, DO A LITTLE WRONG.
45=HE IS WELL PAID THAT IS WELL SATISFIED.
46=THE MAN THAT HATH NO MUSIC IN HIMSELF, NOR IS NOT MOV'D WITH CONCORD OF SWEET SOUNDS, IS FIT FOR TREASONS, STRATAGEMS, AND SPOILS.
47=HOW FAR THAT LITTLE CANDLE THROWS HIS BEAMS! SO SHINES A GOOD DEED IN A NAUGHTY WORLD.
48=I AM AMAZED, METHINKS, AND LOSE MY WAY AMONG THE THORNS AND DANGERS OF THIS WORLD.
49=AND BUT FOR THESE VILE GUNS, HE WOULD HIMSELF HAVE BEEN A SOLDIER.
50=THERE LIVE NOT THREE GOOD MEN UNHANGED IN ENGLAND, AND ONE OF THEM IS FAT AND GROWS OLD.
51=THUS WE PLAY THE FOOLS WITH THE TIME, AND THE SPIRITS OF THE WISE SIT IN THE CLOUDS AND MOCK US.
52=BUT WHEN THE BLAST OF WAR BLOWS IN OUR EARS, THEN IMITATE THE ACTION OF THE TIGER; STIFFEN THE SINEWS, SUMMON UP THE BLOOD, DISGUISE FAIR NATURE WITH HARD-FAVOR'D RAGE.
53=THE DAY IS CALLED THE FEAST OF CRISPIAN: HE THAT OUTLIVES THIS DAY, AND COMES SAFE HOME, WILL STAND A-TIP-TOE WHEN THIS DAY IS NAME'D. AND ROUSE HIM AT THE NAME OF CRISPIAN.
54=WE FEW, WE HAPPY FEW, WE BAND OF BROTHERS; FOR HE TODAY THAT SHEDS HIS BLOOD WITH ME SHALL BE MY BROTHER.
55=HE HATH A HEART AS SOUND AS A BELL, AND HIS TONGUE IS THE CLAPPER; FOR WHAT HIS HEART THINKS HIS TONGUE SPEAKS.
56=EVERYONE CAN MASTER A GRIEF BUT HE THAT HAS IT.
57=O! WHAT MEN DARE DO! WHAT MEN MAY DO! WHAT MEN DAILY DO, NOT KNOWING WHAT THEY DO!
58=FOR THERE WAS NEVER YET THE PHILOSOPHER THAT COULD ENDURE THE TOOTHACHE PATIENTLY.
59=THE BIG ROUND TEARS COURS'D ONE ANOTHER DOWN HIS INNOCENT NOSE IN PITEOUS CHASE.
60=THOUGH I LOOK OLD, YET I AM STRONG AND LUSTY; FOR IN MY YOUTH I NEVER DID APPLY HOT AND REBELLIOUS LIQUORS IN MY BLOOD.
61=I CAN SUCK MELANCHOLY OUT OF A SONG AS A WEASEL SUCKS EGGS.
62=MY LUNGS BEGAN TO CROW LIKE CHANTICLEER, THAT FOOLS SHOULD BE SO DEEP-CONTEMPLATIVE.
63=ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE, AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS.
64=BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND! THOU ART NOT SO UNKIND AS MAN'S INGRATITUDE.
65=I AM A TRUE LABORER; I EARN THAT I EAT, GET THAT I WEAR, OWE NO MAN HATE, ENVY NO MAN'S HAPPINESS, GLAD OF OTHER MEN'S GOOD, CONTENT WITH MY HARM.
66=O, WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL, AND MOST WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL! AND YET AGAIN WONDERFUL! AND AFTER THAT OUT OF ALL WHOOPING.
67=DO YOU NOT KNOW I AM A WOMAN? WHEN I THINK, I MUST SPEAK.
68=MEN HAVE DIED FROM TIME TO TIME, AND WORMS HAVE EATEN THEM, BUT NOT FOR LOVE.
69="SO SO" IS GOOD, VERY GOOD, VERY EXCELLENT GOOD; AND YET IT IS NOT; IT IS BUT SO SO.
70=IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE, PLAY ON; GIVE ME EXCESS OF IT, THAT, SURFEITING, THE APPETITE MAY SICKEN, AND SO DIE.
71=WHEN MY TONGUE BLABS, THEN LET MINE EYES NOT SEE.
72=GOD GIVE THEM WISDOM THAT HAVE IT; AND THOSE THAT ARE FOOLS, LET THEM USE THEIR TALENTS.
73=BE NOT AFRAID OF GREATNESS; SOME ARE BORN GREAT, SOME ACHIEVE GREATNESS, AND SOME HAVE GREATNESS THRUST UPON THEM.
74=YOU WILL HANG LIKE AN ICICLE ON A DUTCHMAN'S BEARD.
75=YOND CASSIUS HAS A LEAN AND HUNGRY LOOK; HE THINKS TOO MUCH: SUCH MEN ARE DANGEROUS.
76=COWARDS DIE MANY TIMES BEFORE THEIR DEATHS; THE VALIANT NEVER TASTE OF DEATH, BUT ONCE.
77=OF ALL THE WONDERS THAT I HAVE HEARD, IT SEEMS TO ME MOST STRANGE THAT MEN SHOULD FEAR; SEEING THAT DEATH, A NECESSARY END, WILL COME WHEN IT WILL COME.
78=FRIENDS, ROMANS, COUNTRYMEN, LEND ME YOUR EARS. I COME TO BURY CAESAR, NOT TO PRAISE HIM.
79=O! THAT THIS TOO SOLID FLESH WOULD MELT, THAW AND RESOLVE ITSELF INTO DEW.
80=BEWARE OF ENTRANCE TO A QUARREL, BUT BEING IN, BEAR IT THAT THE OPPOSED MAY BEWARE OF THEE.
81=GIVE EVERY MANY THY EAR, BUT FEW THY VOICE; TAKE EACH MAN'S CENSURE, BUT RESERVE THEY JUDGMENT.
82=COSTLY THY HABIT AS THY PURSE CAN BUY, BUT NOT EXPRESS'D IN FANCY; RICH, NOT GAUDY; FOR THE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE MAN.
83=NEITHER A BORROWER, NOR A LENDER BE; FOR A LOAN OFT LOSES BOTH ITSELF AND FRIEND.
84=THIS ABOVE ALL: TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE.
85=SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK.
86=DOUBT THOU THE STARS ARE FIRE; DOUBT THAT THE SUN DOTH MOVE; DOUBT TRUTH TO BE A LIAR; BUT NEVER DOUBT I LOVE.
87=THOUGH THIS BE MADNESS, YET THERE IS METHOD IN IT.
88=WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN! HOW NOBLE IN REASON! HOW INFINITE IN FACULTY! IN FORM, IN MOVING, HOW EXPRESS AND ADMIRABLE! IN ACTION HOW LIKE AN ANGEL! IN APPREHENSION HOW LIKE A GOD!
89=TO BE OR NOT TO BE: THAT IS THE QUESTION.
90=O! WOE IS ME, TO HAVE SEEN WHAT I HAVE SEEN, SEE WHAT I SEE.
91=A MAN MAY FISH WITH A WORM THAT HATH EAT OF A KING, AND EAT OF THE FISH THAT HATH FED OF THAT WORM.
92=NOW CRACKS A NOBEL HEART. GOOD NIGHT SWEET PRINCE, AND FLIGHTS OF ANGELS SING THEE TO THY REST.
93=OFT EXPECTATION FAILS, AND MOST OFT THERE WHERE MOST IT PROMISES.
94=ALL'S WELL THAT END'S WELL.
95=PRAISING WHAT IS LOST MAKES THE REMEMBRANCE DEAR.
96=FAIR IS FOUL, AND FOUL IS FAIR: HOVER THROUGH THE FOG AND FILTHY AIR.
97=COME, LET'S AWAY TO PRISON; WE TWO ALONE WILL SING LIKE BIRDS IN THE CAGE.
98=I HAVE SEEN BETTER FACES IN MY TIME THAN STANDS ON ANY SHOULDER THAT I SEE BEFORE ME AT THIS INSTANT.
99=HOW SHARPER THAN A SERPENT'S TOOTH IT IS TO HAVE A THANKLESS CHILD.
100=AS FLIES ARE TO WANTON BOYS, WE ARE TO THE GODS.
