Charles Churchill
A joke's a very serious thing.Collection: Humor
Patience is sorrow's salve.Collection: Patience
Genius is independent of situation.Collection: Intelligence
Genius is of no country.Collection: Country
The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.Collection: Health
Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.Collection: Lying
The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.Collection: Religion
By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?Collection: Success
Fame is nothing but an empty name.Collection: Names
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.Collection: Art
The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.Collection: Law
If you mean to profit, learn to praise.Collection: Mean
Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.Collection: Doctors
On the four aces doom'd to roll.Collection: Four
Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.Collection: Couple
England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea.Collection: Stars
The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.Collection: Pride
To copy faults is want of sense.Collection: Want
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.Collection: Envy
And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.Collection: Reputation
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.Collection: Fashion
Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.Collection: Purses
Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.Collection: Mirth
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.Collection: Oratory
Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.Collection: Attitude
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.Collection: Truth
Knaves starve not in the land of fools.Collection: Land
Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.Collection: Brother
All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.Collection: Mistake
Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.Collection: Blow
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.Collection: Writing
Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.Collection: Speak