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"He:— That's a rather stiff job, isn't? A goose is such a rum bird to carve."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 140, January 18, 1911, p. 38 [She:— Well, if you won't I must.]

Multifandom [Katy Perry] — Hot n Cold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxhtyHukbVc

"Uniting contradictions, she is, at one and the same time, hot and cold, in her senses and out of her mind."
Longinus, On the Sublime, Chapter 10, #3 [Sappho: Flame runs over my quivering skin, cold sweat drops.]

"Our alleged Decadence.
"Tossing sheep over cross-bar : 1, E. Proctor, Low Firth (with the record height of 22 ft.)." Ulvestorn News.
He ought to have this event absolutely stiff at the next Olympic Games ; and he might easily train
on into a champion at "Flicking hippopotamus between parallel-bars," hitherto held by America.
There’s nothing much the matter with England after all."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 143, August 21, 1912, p. 168 [stiff: certain to win.]

Ruby [Alexandra Stan, Mr Saxobeat] — Dancing to Mr. Saxobeat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo4SXAYB2YY

"Instead of noting his suavity of manners and prudence, we call him false and sly."
[Molestus, communi sensu plane caret inquimus. Eheu, quam temere in nosmet legem sancimus iniquam.]
Horace, Satires, Book I, Satire 3, line 63 [Communi sensu: a simple courtesy; tact: discretion & sympathy.]

"Hatred comes from causing offense, avoided by not provoking anyone; unprovoked, attempt a genial manner."
[Odium autest ex offensa (hoc vitabis neminem lacessendo) aut gratuitum, a quo te sensus communis tuebitur.]
Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Epistle 105, #4.

"Rare is deference to common weal among fortunate."
[Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa fortuna.]
Juvenal, Satires, Book III, Satire VIII True Nobility, line 73.

Theory Of A Deadman — Bad Girlfriend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1D_sIy-Bfw

"A wise prince should establish himself on that which is in his own control and not in that of others;
he must endeavour only to avoid hatred, as is noted."
Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter XVII, 1532.

"What tyrant e'er invented ropes, Or racks, or rods, to punish hopes? Th' inheritance of hope and fame
Is seldom Earthly Wisdom's aim; Or, if it were, is not so small, But there is room enough for all."
Jonathan Swift, The Pheasant and the Lark a Fable by Dr. Delany, 1730 [Plain Truth was Pride.]

"Whether the seamen of three hundred years hence will have the faculty of sympathy it is impossible to say."
Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea, Chapter XXII. The Character of the Foe, 1906.