Occupation: Pamphleteer Birth: November 30, 1667 Death: October 19, 1745
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle..
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning..
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another..
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible..
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through..
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed..
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into..
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..
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery..
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman..
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life..
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old..
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers..
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent..
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say..
Many a truth is told in jest..
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him..
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..
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into..