He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.Collection: Cost
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.Collection: Writing
Lean liberty is better than fat slaveryCollection: Liberty
A maid that laughs is half taken.Collection: Taken
They love too much that die for love.Collection: Cynical
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.Collection: Love
A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.Collection: Running
My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions.Collection: Thinking
Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.Collection: Wine
Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.Collection: Animal
He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.Collection: War
A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.Collection: Beautiful
Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.Collection: Children
In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.Collection: Law
He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.Collection: Ballet
The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.Collection: Cat
A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.Collection: Daughter
Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.Collection: Soul
The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.Collection: Butterfly
To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.Collection: Cat
The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.Collection: Party
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.Collection: Wise
They that make laws must not break them.Collection: Law
Guilt is always jealousCollection: Jealousy
I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.Collection: Love Is
Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.Collection: Listeners
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.Collection: Children
Manners make often fortunes.Collection: Manners
Every man praises his own wares.Collection: Men
That which is evil is soon learned.Collection: Evil
A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.Collection: Mother