For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope.
Samuel Butler (1612 - 1680)
Source: Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 81.
Contributed by: Zaady
For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.
Source: Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 89.
For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.
Source: Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 463.
Love is a boy by poets styl'd; Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
Source: Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 843.
Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
Source: Hudibras. Part ii. line 107
Opinion governs all mankind, Like the blind's leading of the blind .
Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts.
Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last.
Source: Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 1367.
When pious frauds and holy shifts Are dispensations and gifts.
Source: Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 1145.
'T was Presbyterian true blue.
Source: Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 191.
These reasons made his mouth to water.
Source: Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 379.
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