Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. [ Byron ]

Trade hardly deems the busy day begun,
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
The blooming daughter throws her needle by.
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on.
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down,
To know what last new folly fills the town;
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things.
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. [ Sprague ]

Whist, then, delightful whist, my theme shall be. [ A. Thompson ]

It is difficult to handle a common theme with originality. [ Horace ]

You are always singing the same tune, (i.e. harping on one theme). [ Ter ]

In all you write be neither low nor vile: The meanest theme may have a proper style. [ Dryden ]

Verily, O man, with truth for thy theme, eloquence shall throne thee with archangels. [ Tupper ]

On such a theme it were impious to be calm; passion is reason, transport, temper, here! [ Young ]