| Quotes |
Topic |
| Genius | When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. |
| Gossip | I heard the little bird say so. |
| Gossip | What some invent, the rest enlarge. |
| Government | For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. |
| Hearing | They never would hear, But turn the deaf ear, As a matter they had no concern in. |
| History | The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing. |
| Invention | He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. |
| Invention | Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought. |
| Investigation | Hail, fellow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man. |
| Jackdaws | An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, "Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do." |
| Jesting | A college joke to cure the dumps. |
| Law | Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through. |
| Limitations | Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan Swift. |
| Men | Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. |
| Men and Women | As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. |
| Modesty | Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. |
| Necessity | Necessity is the mother of invention. |
| Optimism | 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. |
| Oysters | He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. |
| Passion | Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after. |
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