He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ’s College.

As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly ‘I have seen the glories of the world.

To make a hole-in-one in a major, that was great, … It’s an honor for me to play in a major with all these great players and be under par… and then make a hole-in-one...

This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne...

He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

My dad was a pretty poor guy, he didn’t have a whole lot of money. He always wanted something for my brother and myself, some kind of business. He’d asked the owners of this course...

If Solomon counts the day of one’s death better than the day of one’s birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one’s remarkable and happy days.

Upon the sixth of April, Alexander the Great was born. Upon the same day he conquered Darius, won a great victory at sea, and died the same day.

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike...

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

I shall take particular notice here of the third of November, both because ’tis my own birth day, and also for that I have observed some remarkable accidents to have happened thereupon.

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

When he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech. (About Shakespeare)

He (Thomas Hobbes) walked much and contemplated, and he had in the head of his staff a pen and ink-horn, carried always a notebook in his pocket, and as soon as a thought darted, he...

I couldn’t see it go in because of the mound in front of the green, … I knew it was going to be close.