Bread is the staff of life.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage; and they were always mortal enemies
I have almost done with harridans, and shall soon become old enough to fall in love with girls of fourteen
Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries
One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
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