Zsa Zsa Gabor when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest said "She'll never admit it but I believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of...
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
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.
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
In answer to which, I assured his honor that in all points out of their [lawyers'] own trade, they were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable in common conversa...
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof Ihope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am notunderstood, it shall be concluded that something very usef...
Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
Every dog must have his day.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
He said, my discourse was all very strange, but especially the last part; for he could not understand, why nature should teach us to conceal what nature had given; that neither himself nor family were...
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.