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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, wh...  
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.  
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.  
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.  
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhap...  
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of co...  
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so ...  
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love...  
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.  
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.  
Books, the children of the brain.  
But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and ...  
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.  
Come, agree, the law's costly.  
Don't set your wit against a child.  
Faith, that's as well said, as if I had said it myself.  
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is t...   Government
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we conve...  
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of ...  
He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.  
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.  
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provisi...  
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in ...  
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not a...  
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.  
I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to mak...  
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Inv...  
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.  
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so univer...  
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which...  
Just get the right syllable in the proper place.  
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and ...  
May you live every day of your life.   Life
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their foll...  
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imi...  
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.  
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not t...  
No wise man ever wished to be younger.  
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their ow...  
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flat...  
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how o...  
Observation is an old man's memory.  
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.  
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corrupti...  
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hun...  
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, who...  
Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.  
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.  
Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.  
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover eve...  
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.  
So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou...  
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Docto...  
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the fo...  
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy...  
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style...  
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, ...  
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.  
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.  
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and ...  
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman togethe...  
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.  
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.   Art
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.  
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make u...   Religion
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are ...  
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all th...  
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very u...  
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be sai...  
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning ...