17th-century cats who don’t have time for this shit

‘Asses are made to bear, and so are you.’

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‘I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.’

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‘I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.’

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‘You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!’

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‘Sit there, clod-pate!’

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‘There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.’

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‘What goes up, must come down’.

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‘Don’t I have a reason to be angry, you disobedient hags?’

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‘All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.’

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‘Silence is the virtue of a fool!’

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‘I begin to smell a rat.’

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‘They say everything in the world is good for something.’

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‘Be frustrate all ye strategems of Hell, and devilish machinations come to naught!’

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‘I see all the birds have flown.’

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‘And so I went to Mrs. Martin, and there did what je voudrais avec her, both devante and backward, which is also muy bon plazer.’

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‘A surfeit of the sweetest things, the deepest loathing to the stomach brings.’

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“By god”, says he, “I think the Devil shits Dutchmen!”

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‘I am the state.’