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| 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit, Will condescend to take a bit | | Uncategorized | |
| A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w | | Children; Family; Friends | |
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| A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment? | | Uncategorized | |
| A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. | | Lies | |
| A lie is an excuse guarded | | Lies | |
| A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday. | | Shame | |
| A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. | | Ideas | |
| A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. | | Uncategorized | |
| A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone | | Uncategorized | |
| A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. | | Money | |
| A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. | | Uncategorized | |
| All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues | | Pleasure | |
| All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits. | | Uncategorized | |
| Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. | | Ambition | |
| And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole | | Uncategorized | |
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| Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading | | Arguments; Books | |
| As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. | | Men and Women | |
| As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. | | Uncategorized | |
