Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

- Samuel Foote

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

- Samuel Foote

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

- Samuel Foote

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

- Samuel Foote

One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

- Samuel Foote

He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.

- Samuel Foote

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head int…

- Samuel Foote