Por hembras yo no me pierdo. La que me empaca su amor pasa por el cernidor y†si te vi, no me acuerdo. I make no fuss about females. The one who gives me her love Gets sifted in my private sieve and†I don't think we ever met.

-Campo, Estanislao de
  Fausto (translated as Faust,1943), pt.3.

They went to sea in a sieve, they did In a sieve they went to sea.

-Lear, Edward
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Jumblies'.

Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

-Lear, Edward
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Jumblies'.

They called aloud 'Our Sieve ain't big, But we don't care a button! We don't care a fig!'

-Lear, Edward
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Jumblies'.

Washington isa sieve†it was virtually impossibletofind out who was doing the leaking and shut them up.

-Reagan, Ronald Wilson
  Depositionon the Iran^Contra arms sales. In the NewYork Times, 23 Feb.