After me the deluge. [ Madame de Pompadour ]

My mind to me an empire is. [ Southwell ]

Love me little, love me long. [ Marlowe ]

Love me lightly, love me long. [ Proverb ]

I have Immortal longings In me. [ William Shakespeare ]

Save me from the candid friend. [ George Canning ]

All that I am, my mother made me. [ J. Q. Adams ]

Love me more, and honour me less. [ Proverb ]

Call me cousin, but cozen me not. [ Proverb ]

Give me liberty, or give me death. [ Patrick Henry ]

Today for thee, and tomorrow for me. [ Cervantes ]

Tell me, my soul! can this be death? [ Pope ]

I pardon him, as God shall pardon me. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grant me honest fame or grant me none. [ Pope ]

He hurts me most who lavishly commends. [ Churchill ]

You owed me a sheep but paid me a lamb. [ Proverb ]

Steeped me in poverty to the very lips. [ William Shakespeare ]

For me to live is Christ, to die is gain. [ Bible ]

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

For me - I hold no commerce with despair! [ Dawes ]

Man delights not me, - nor woman neither. [ William Shakespeare ]

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine! [ Emerson ]

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. [ Job xiii. 15 ]

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee! [ Boethius ]

He teaches me to be good that does me good. [ Proverb ]

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. [ Dante ]

I cannot sit and think; books think for me. [ Lamb ]

He who paints me before, blackens me behind. [ Italian Proverb ]

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises. [ William Shakespeare ]

Give me that man That is not passion's slave. [ William Shakespeare ]

The wound is for you, but the pain is for me. [ Charles IX ]

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me. [ Emerson ]

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. [ Goldsmith ]

Call me not an olive till thou see me gathered. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that gives me small gifts would have me live. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Come, my best friends, my books! and lead me on. [ Cowley ]

Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music. [ Mirabeau ]

In life you loved me not, in death you bewail me. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Modern wisdom plucks me from overcredulous haste. [ William Shakespeare ]

Let me have music dying, and I seek no more delight. [ Keats ]

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. [ Garibaldi ]

God send me a friend that will tell me of my faults. [ Proverb ]

My dear, your everlasting blue velvet quite tires me. [ Thackeray ]

The fire that does not warm me shall never scorch me. [ Proverb ]

No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set. [ Milton ]

Hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear. [ William Shakespeare ]

God grant me to contend with those that understand me. [ Proverb ]

Slanderers do not hurt me, because they do not hit me. [ Socrates ]

Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me. [ William Shakespeare ]

He covers me with his wings and bites me with his bill. [ Proverb ]

He is my friend that succours me, not he that pities me. [ Proverb ]

Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of woman. [ Bible ]

He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me. [ Proverb ]

Let me say amen betimes, lest the devil cross my prayers. [ William Shakespeare ]

Since you wronged me, you never had a good thought of me. [ Proverb ]

Let me dream that love goes with us to the shore unknown. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company. [ Swift ]

When you have given me roast meat you beat me with the spit. [ Proverb ]

Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart! [ Byron ]

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Let me gain by you, and no matter whether you love me or not. [ Proverb ]

A sudden thought strikes me, let us swear eternal friendship. [ Canning ]

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. [ Shakespeare ]

Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine. [ Ben Jonson ]

Necessity and chance approach not me, and what I will is fate. [ Milton ]

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. [ William Shakespeare ]

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. [ Lavater ]

And let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [ Izaak Walton ]

Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies. [ The French Ana ]

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. [ Propertius ]

Oh, give me thy hand, one writ with me in sour misfortune's book- [ William Shakespeare ]

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth. [ Saadi ]

Once every atom of this ground lived, breathed, and felt like me! [ James Montgomery ]

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. [ Brickerstaff ]

Studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty Dead. [ Thomson ]

The tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me. [ Tennyson ]

Tell me why the ant midst summer's plenty thinks of winter's want. [ Prior ]

That fire that does not warm me, I will never permit to scorch me. [ Proverb ]

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed. [ Byron ]

Had God meant me to be different, He would have created me different. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Can eternity belong to me, poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? [ Young ]

Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [ Ovid ]

The only thing that grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is. [ Emerson ]

O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness. [ William Shakespeare ]

I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. [ Emerson ]

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. [ William Shakespeare ]

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, God help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. [ Congreve ]

He does me double wrong, that wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. [ William Shakespeare ]

The devil hath owed me a cake of a long time, and now hath paid me a loaf. [ Proverb ]

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights. [ Charles Sumner ]

He that does not speak truth to me, does not believe me when I speak truth. [ Proverb ]

He that tempts me to drink beyond my measure, civilly invites me to a fever. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

I have given suck, and know how tender it is to love the babe that milks me. [ William Shakespeare ]

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again, though he were my best friend. [ Franklin ]

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! [ William Shakespeare ]

Let me embrace these sour adversities, for wise men say it is the wisest course. [ Shakespeare ]