 Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. |
| I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me. |
| He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. |
| I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. |
| Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. |
| A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar. |
| 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. |
| The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency. |
| That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. |
| To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. |
| Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer. |
| There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. |
| My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands! |
| Be just before you are generous. |
| You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading. |
| The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. |
| Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. |
| A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. |
| There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so. |
| You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest. |
