| Quotes |
Topic |
| Hypocrisy | A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein. |
| Immortality | All men think all men mortal, but themselves. |
| Ingratitude | He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him. |
| Learning | Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. |
| Luxury | On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired. |
| Luxury | On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired. |
| Men and Women | The man that blushes is not quite a brute. |
| Miracles | What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too. |
| Murder | One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. |
| Nobility | Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies. |
| Owls | Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade, Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed. |
| Pain | When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair. |
| Pain | A man of pleasure is a man of pains. |
| Prosperity | Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines. |
| Proverbs | Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life. |
| Proverbs | One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. |
| Proverbs | Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel. |
| Proverbs | Wishing, of all employments is the worst. |
| Proverbs | Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. |
| Proverbs | The man of wisdom is the man of years. |
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