Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Votes: 25
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. Votes: 11
Observation is an old man's memory. Votes: 5
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. Votes: 0
Surely mortal man is a broomstick! Votes: 0
I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite. Votes: 0
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. Votes: 0
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. Votes: 0
There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done. Votes: 0
A lie is an excuse guarded Votes: 0
An excuse is a lie guarded. Votes: 0
Hail fellow, well met. Votes: 0
Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow. Votes: 0
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. Votes: 0
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. Votes: 0
May you live every day of your life. Votes: 0
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. Votes: 0
When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name. Votes: 0
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. Votes: 0
Books, the children of the brain. Votes: 0
You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place. Votes: 0
Many a truth is told in jest. Votes: 0
Don't set your wit against a child. Votes: 0
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. Votes: 0
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. Votes: 0
Every dog must have his day. Votes: 0
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not. Votes: 0
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. Votes: 0
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. Votes: 0
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad. Votes: 0
You must take the will for the deed. Votes: 0
Tell truth, and shame the devil. Votes: 0
The more careless, the more modish. Votes: 0
Bread is the staff of life. Votes: 0
Big-endians and small-endians. Votes: 0
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends. Votes: 0
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel. Votes: 0
The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue. Votes: 0
Kitchen Physic is the best Physic. Votes: 0
Perverseness is your whole defence. Votes: 0
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired Votes: 0
A carpenter is known by his chips. Votes: 0
T is as cheap sitting as standing. Votes: 0
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals. Votes: 0
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion. Votes: 0
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life. Votes: 0
Vision is seeing the invisible. Votes: 0
Tis nothing when you are used to it. Votes: 0
Come, agree, the law's costly. Votes: 0
Walls have tongues, and hedges ears. Votes: 0
A college joke to cure the dumps. Votes: 0
Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind. Votes: 0