Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
He that is rich is wise.
'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
It is never too late to be wise.
Pleasure is a thief to business.
Business neglected is business lost.
Law is but a heathen word for power.
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
All men would be tyrants if they could.
Friends are good,--good, if well chosen.
Pride the first peer and president of hell.
Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised
For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.
Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.
I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven.
And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.
Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.
Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.
[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes
Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.
All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.