LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus Lactuca, Wherewith, says that pious gastronome, Hengist Pelly, God has been pleased to reward the good and punish the wicked. For by his inner light the righteous man has discerned a manner of compounding for it a dressing to the appetency whereof a multitude of gustible condiments conspire, being reconciled and ameliorated with profusion of oil, the entire comestible making glad the heart of the godly and causing his face to shine. But the person of spiritual unworth is successfully tempted to the Adversary to eat of lettuce with destitution of oil, mustard, egg, salt and garlic, and with a rascal bath of vinegar polluted with sugar. Wherefore the person of spiritual unworth suffers an intestinal pang of strange complexity and raises the song.
Quotes about rascal (16 Quotes)
He fought until he landed. When he had come to the ground I flew over him at an altitude of about thirty feet in order to ascertain whether I had killed him or not. What did the rascal do He took his machine-gun and shot holes into my machine.
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How can people be made happy in a petty kingdom What peace can we expect from a rascal friend What happiness can we have at home in the company of a bad wife How can renown be gained by instructing an unworthy disciple
I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.
It is better to be without a kingdom than to rule over a petty one better to be without a friend than to befriend a rascal better to be without a disciple than to have a stupid one and better to be without a wife than to have a bad one.
Next to the prosperity of a good person, I am best pleased with the confusion of a rascal.
miss that old rascal.
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud,
shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy,
worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver'd, action-taking, whoreson,
glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of
good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave,
beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch;
one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deny the
least syllable of thy addition.
RASCAL, n. A fool considered under another aspect.
An't please your Majesty, a rascal that swagger'd with me
last night; who, if 'a live and ever dare to challenge this
glove, I have sworn to take him a box o' th' ear; or if I can see
my glove in his cap- which he swore, as he was a soldier, he
would wear if alive- I will strike it out soundly.
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.