Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Hail fellow, well met.
A lie is an excuse guarded
Bread is the staff of life.
An excuse is a lie guarded.
Every dog must have his day.
Many a truth is told in jest.
Big-endians and small-endians.
Come, agree, the law's costly.
Vision is seeing the invisible.
Tell truth, and shame the devil.
Books, the children of the brain.
A college joke to cure the dumps.
A carpenter is known by his chips.
Surely mortal man is a broomstick!
T is as cheap sitting as standing.
Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
The more careless, the more modish.
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
Don't set your wit against a child.
Perverseness is your whole defence.
Observation is an old man's memory.
I row after health like a waterman.
You must take the will for the deed.
Tis nothing when you are used to it.
Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
My hunger serves me instead of a clock.
The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
May you live all the days of your life.
Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
Praise is the daughter of present power.
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
I never knew any man cured of inattention.
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
