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Benjamin Franklin: He that speaks...

Benjamin Franklin: He that speaks...

He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Benjamin Franklin: Many a man...

Benjamin Franklin: Many a man...

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

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Benjamin Franklin: Nothing preaches better...

Benjamin Franklin: Nothing preaches better...

Nothing preaches better than the act.

Source: In

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Benjamin Franklin: Experience is a...

Benjamin Franklin: Experience is a...

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

Source: In

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Benjamin Franklin: He that rises...

Benjamin Franklin: He that rises...

He that rises late must trot all day.

Source: In

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Benjamin Franklin: It is the...

Benjamin Franklin: It is the...

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine...

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Alexander Pope: The mob of...

Alexander Pope: The mob of...

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.

Source: Satires and Epistles of Horace...

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Francis Bacon: The place of...

Francis Bacon: The place of...

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Source: Essays, 'Of Judicature'
--...

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If you're treated...

If you're treated...

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being...

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Money, it turned...

Money, it turned...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other...

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People are trapped...

People are trapped...

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Source: In Webster's...

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There is much...

There is much...

There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which...

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No normal man...

No normal man...

No normal man ever fell in love after 30 when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.

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Curiosity is, in...

Curiosity is, in...

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Source:...

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Here falling houses...

Here falling houses...

Here falling houses thunder on your head,
And here a female atheist talks you dead.


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I have found...

I have found...

I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just.

Source: In Webster's...

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ALONE, adj. In...

ALONE, adj. In...

ALONE, adj. In bad company.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
-- Ambrose...

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AFFLICTION, n. An...

AFFLICTION, n. An...

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

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APHORISM, n. Predigested...

APHORISM, n. Predigested...

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
--...

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CONSERVATIVE, n. A...

CONSERVATIVE, n. A...

CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal who wishes to replace...

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