Quo minimè credas gurgite, piscis erit —There is scope for chance everywhere; let your hook be always hanging ready.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

It is not enough for them to worry you during life, but they cannot even leave you at peace when you are dead:” But his wife, without being in the least disconcerted, replied: “The feeling is stronger than I am, and I must go.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

[62] puede hacerse por agua; pues como usted ve, el río Ulúa, que desemboca en el Atlántico, se comunica con el lago Yojoz por medio del río Blanco.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

con una Judia y dijo M r Montesa a un escudero suyo que baylasse en ellas, y el le respondio que no baylaria en tal dia porque mas era dia de plorar, porque estando los cristianos en la yglesia en tales dias no era hora de reyr,
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

I wish you'd teach me how to talk English,—good clean English, like yours.
— from The Helpers by Francis Lynde

Now if I'd had a college education, like you, and you'd been thrown on the world, like me, maybe I'd be livin' up there on Grant Avenue and you'd be down here over the saloon."
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Joyce has got that eight hundred pounds of yours; and I can easily let you have another two or three.
— from A Rogue by Compulsion An Affair of the Secret Service by Victor Bridges

But at least I can be of use in other ways—hang it, you know, I can even lend you money.
— from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

I do like you; I believe I could even love you.
— from Love Among the Lions: A Matrimonial Experience by F. Anstey

“True, Robin, as regards words, but there are other modes of indication, as must be well-known to a celebrated electrician like yourself.
— from The Battery and the Boiler: Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

As soon as his task was done, he paused and looked out towards the mainland, thinking of Christmas Eve last year, and the merry dance they had had.
— from The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

I did not think you could ever let yourself go."
— from The Right of Way — Volume 01 by Gilbert Parker