Aspettare e non venire, / Stare in letto e non dormire, / Ben servire e non gradire, / Son tre cose da morire —To wait for what never comes, to lie abed and not sleep, to serve and not be advanced, are three things to die of.
— 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.

We are like to eat no great store of goslings this year; therefore, friend, reach me some of that roasted pig there.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

So, he gave her three or four with a kind of jocose gallantry, and Miss La Creevy evinced no greater symptoms of displeasure than declaring, as she adjusted her yellow turban, that she had never heard of such a thing, and couldn’t have believed it possible.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

And Tristram, 'Ay, Sir Fool, for when our King Was victor wellnigh day by day, the knights, Glorying in each new glory, set his name High on all hills, and in the signs of heaven.'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

'Tis now enough; now glory spreads her charms, And beauteous Helen calls her chief to arms.
— from The Iliad by Homer

There is Chepstow Castle, with its early Norman gateway spanned by a circular arch flanked by round towers.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

grave, serious, earnest, noble, grand, solemn, impressive, commanding, imposing.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Of all that grows on earth nothing grows so quickly as Rumor, and yet it is a miserable foundling that never knows its own parents.
— from The Emperor — Complete by Georg Ebers

But though he was obliged to follow because of the rope he would not bark nor even sniff about, and at last the envious neighbor grew so angry that he killed the dog and buried it under a plane tree in the garden.
— from Fairy Tales from Many Lands by Katharine Pyle

She looked on the heaps of sea-weeds, and then along the line of breakers, that seemed even now gathering strength for a return movement.
— from A Child of the Glens; or, Elsie's Fortunes by Edward N. Hoare

Orders were at once issued that there should be no lights, lest the escaping natural gas should explode, and that all persons having spirituous liquors should surrender them to the directors.
— from Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History by Allen Howard Godbey

In every Northern graveyard slumber the victims of this destroying struggle.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes