Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. "

Related Quotes:

" The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. "

" A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. "

" The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. "

" The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. "

" Books, the children of the brain. "

" Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. "

" Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. "

" Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. "

" Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. "

" As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. "

" Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. "

" He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue. "

" For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. "

" When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. "

" Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. "

" No wise man ever wished to be younger. "

" Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. "

" Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. "

" Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. "

" Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. "

" Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. "

" It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. "

" Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. "

" A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. "

" Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. "

" Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. "

" What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. "

" A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. "

" Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. "

" Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. "