I should knock you first, And then I know after who comes by the worst.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

When you are down, poverty, like snowshoes, keeps your feet fast and prevents your rising.
— 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.

“No,” said Kuan Yin, “for all the forces of the ocean are stored in it.” Kuan Yin lifted it with ease, and said: “This dew water is different from dragon water, and can extinguish the fire of passion.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

If you succeed in cheering me up to-night, I shall know you for a great man, and a still greater sorcerer; but you will not attempt it.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Ikay muapáyud sa kaláyu, You fan the fire.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Ang ímung binúang naglanggíkit nákù sa kaúlaw, Your foolishness involved me in your shame.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Likíun (likiyun) kag búnal ni Pápa mu ug sakpan ka, Your father will beat you mercilessly if he catches you.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Verily, those among the friends who were martyred in the path of God—verily this is a favor from God which He bestoweth upon whomsoever He chooses; verily God is the most bountiful!—they attained what the holy ones in the Supreme Kingdom yearned for, and quaffed the wine of grace from the bountiful hand of thy Lord the Merciful—may my spirit be a sacrifice to them!
— from Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

I love you—I love you more than all else on earth, more than life, and nothing shall keep you from me.
— from Brother Against Brother; or, The Tompkins Mystery. A Story of the Great American Rebellion. by John R. (John Roy) Musick

He said kiss you for him and tell you he said 'Come on in, the water's fine.'
— from The Melting of Molly by Maria Thompson Daviess

Why, I should know you from a thousand by that little knob on your nose.'
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook

But Lord God, who gave you the stories, know you for a louse.
— from Messer Marco Polo by Donn Byrne

She knew your father's son would not depart from his God!"
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 by Various

Now the town shall know you for what you are; and as for my poor niece—Heaven forgive her!—I would sooner see her in her coffin than the wife of such a heartless, cold-blooded, mercenary wretch.”
— from The Vicar's People by George Manville Fenn