Old sayings

orcs work to live, dwarves live to work.

you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stockfish! O, for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase, you vile standing tuck-

For these my present friends, as they are to me nothing, so in nothing bless them, and to nothing are they welcome. -Timon of Athens