five quotes

If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons why men drink, Good wine, a friend, or being dry, Or lest we should be by-and-by, Or any other reason why.

- Henry Aldrich
  'Five Reasons for Drinking'.

Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve! Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.

- Geoffrey Chaucer
  Canterbury  Tales,'The Wife of Bath's Prologue', l.44^5.

   Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^7  Mr Meagles. Little Dorrit, bk.1, ch.16.

   The formula 'Two and two is five' is not without its attractions.

- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
  Notes from Underground.

Mr Creston Clarke played King Lear at theTabor Grand last night. All through five acts of Shakespeare's tragedy he played the king as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

- Eugene Field
c.1880   Attributed review in the Denver Post.

To think that two and two are four And neither five nor three The heart of man has long been sore And long 'tis like to be.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  Last Poems, no.35.

Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.

- Adam Skirving
  Five Bells, title poem.The poem was written as an elegy for Joe Lynch, a friend who fell overboard from a Sydney ferry.

Thesecret of managing a ball club istokeepthefiveguys who hate you away from the five who are undecided.

- Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).