Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last.
Samuel Butler (1612 - 1680)
Source: Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 1367.
Contributed by: Zaady
For money has a power above The stars and fate, to manage love.
Source: Hudibras
Love in your hearts as idly burns As fire in antique Roman urns.
Source: Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 309.
I 'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.
Source: Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 277.
There's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war.
Source: Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 957.
With crosses, relics, crucifixes, Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes, The tools of working out salvation By mere mechanic operation.
Source: Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1495.
He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side.
Source: Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 67.
The want of money is the root of all evil.
He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no.
Source: Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 261.
With mortal crisis doth portend My days to appropinque an end.
Source: Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 589.
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