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That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain,
And follows but for form,
Will pack, when it begins to rain,
And leave thee in a storm. — William Shakespeare

I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them. — William Shakespeare

Sir Toby Belch: "Dost think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?" (Twelfth Night) — William Shakespeare

A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind;
Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind. — William Shakespeare

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir. — William Tecumseh Sherman

There are three classes of human beings: men, women, and women physicians. - SIR WILLIAM OSLER — Sidney Sheldon

Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop up my nose, or against any man's metaphor. — William Shakespeare

I, sir, am Dromio; command him away. I, sir, am Dromio; pray, let me stay. — William Shakespeare

Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute. — William Shakespeare

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out. — William Shakespeare

Sir William said he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion. — Virginia Woolf

Come, sir, come,
I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.
Look, here I have you, thus I let you go,
And give you to the gods. — William Shakespeare

Tis better, sir, to be brief than tedious. — William Shakespeare

Polonius: My lord, I will take my leave of you.
Hamlet: You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal ... — William Shakespeare

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery. — William H. Seward

I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered. — William Shakespeare

A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it. — William Shakespeare

An thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would thou mightst/ never draw sword again. — William Shakespeare

Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease; and I know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light. — William Shakespeare

Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat. — William Shakespeare

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life. — William Shakespeare

Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? — William Shakespeare

I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI) — William Shakespeare

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere. — William Shakespeare

And Sir, it is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion. — William Shakespeare

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Consummated science is positively humble. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Why may the crinoline be justly regarded as a social invention? Because it enables us to see more of our friends." Sir William Hardman — Patricia Anderson

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet,
if you be out, sir, I can mend you. — William Shakespeare

Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog. — William Shakespeare

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

I am sir an Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dogge barke. — William Shakespeare

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about. — William Cowper

I would with such perfection govern, sir,
T'excel the golden age. — William Shakespeare

Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent should suffer. - Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1766) — Anonymous

The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop. — Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet

Lysimachus: Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at five or at seven?
Marina: Earlier too, sir, if now I be one. — William Shakespeare

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." Sir William Wallace — Amanda M. Thrasher

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. — William Shakespeare

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
- Sir William Henry Bragg — William Henry Bragg

In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

ROMEO: Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit
did I give you?
MERCUTIO: The slip, sir, the slip; can you not conceive? — William Shakespeare

Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,
that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

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Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster. — William Shakespeare

For Lady Elaine, from her brother, Sir William, — Eli Easton

In brief, sir, study what you most affect. — William Shakespeare

What pleasure, sir, find we in life to lock it / From action and adventure? — William Shakespeare

First of all, the Captain rates the honorific 'sir.' You will render that honorific or I will plant my foot in your ass. — William C. Dietz

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. — William Shakespeare

The Life of Sir Thomas Munro, by the Rev. G. R. Gleig, in two volumes, a new edition (London, 1831), vol. ii, p. 175. — William Sleeman

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
All Nature was degraded;
The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear,
And all his pictures faded. — William Blake

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more. — William Henry Harrison

Speak, what trade art thou?
Why, sir, a carpenter.
Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
What does thou with thy best apparel on? — William Shakespeare

One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead. — William Shakespeare

There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!' — William Cosmo Monkhouse