Occupation: Pamphleteer Birth: November 30, 1667 Death: October 19, 1745
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it..
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery..
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it..
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent..
Many a truth is told in jest..
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had it….
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him..
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers..
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through..
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception i….
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone..
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman..
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed..
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into..
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be..
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say..
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old..
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into..
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life..