Theocritus quotes:

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian:We are but mortals, and must sing of men."

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.

Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

Sameron adion asoI shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

All cats love a cushioned couch.

Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

Cats will always lie soft.

Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.

Man will ever stand in need of man.

Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

Trying will do anything in this world.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.

Youth passes like a dream.

Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.

Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.

Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.

Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man.

Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all.

The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.