Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by it...
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1) It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL Among the defects of the Bill, which were numerous, one provision was conspicuous by its presence an...
LORD JOHN RUSSELL A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low, Ar...
JOHN COLLINS (1) Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: ...
JOHN BROWN (1) Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win, And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin.
JOHN BROWN (1) 'Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.
JOHN BROWN (1) A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
JOHN RUSSELL The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of...
JOHN RUSSELL Conspicuous by its absence.
JOHN RUSSELL If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.
JOHN RUSSELL A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
JOHN RUSSELL What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pict...
JOHN RUSSELL Karma is a bitch, and she's got your home phone number...
JOHN RUSSELL We're on the verge of a great situation here with all of the good, young players we have coming up,
JOHN RUSSELL Were a lot of those guys ready? No. We had to force feed them due to circumstances with payroll, ......
JOHN RUSSELL Our goal is to sustain a victim for 10 minutes while we wait for support,
JOHN RUSSELL I love what I do. I love the job I have right now, ... If managing comes along, that's great. If I c...
JOHN RUSSELL We're getting closer, and you'd love to be a part of that.
JOHN RUSSELL Brad [Jones] asked me to come along to their test day last Monday for a look and I was very impresse...
JOHN RUSSELL Henry Moore was . . . the Number 1 choice whenever a public sculpture was needed. . . . It was thoug...
JOHN RUSSELL Certain phrases stick in the throat, even if they offer nothing that is analytically improbable. 'A ...
JOHN RUSSELL What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pict...
JOHN RUSSELL They basically saved the game for us with the plays they made. They're exciting players and have som...
JOHN RUSSELL We're in a much more stable construction market now, no longer impacted by those market pressures.
JOHN RUSSELL He was missing his spots a little bit and made some mistakes with two strikes.
JOHN RUSSELL To get two runs the way they pitched us was pretty good.
JOHN RUSSELL One of the things I'd like him to do is be able to steal the big bases, when everybody knows he's go...
JOHN RUSSELL What I expect is consistency of doing it right every day. Each day has to be a learning experience, ...
JOHN RUSSELL We knew coming in the offense was going to be a little bit of a work in progress. We don't have guys...
JOHN RUSSELL We battled. We'll get better. It'll take us a little bit to get all the wheels going in the same dir...
JOHN RUSSELL We're starting to put things together. Hopefully we'll continue to improve.
JOHN RUSSELL This is an academic enterprise of a particular kind in the fine arts: taking a program and honing it...
JOHN RUSSELL It's hard to know what you can do with security the way it is. The museum will open some day, but fo...
JOHN RUSSELL You don't see too many good left-handed pitchers. It's a very added plus.
JOHN RUSSELL It's the first game of the year. It's just one of those things you take in stride; it's over and you...
JOHN RUSSELL He was in the strike zone. He made us put the ball in play, and that's what makes you effective when...
JOHN RUSSELL I thought I did a good job. I did everything I was asked to do, so I'm not disappointed with anythin...
JOHN RUSSELL It's a potential threat to the life industry. If people start saving through employer-sponsored pens...
JOHN RUSSELL Our brand is unique, offering the style and amenities of the world's leading upscale hotels at mid-s...
JOHN RUSSELL I'm running because I'm upset with the way our government is being run. It's being run right into th...
JOHN RUSSELL It makes math and stuff more fun than writing on a boring chalkboard.
JOHN RUSSELL He's one of those guys I kept my eye on early in spring training. There was talk of sending him down...
JOHN RUSSELL A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
JOHN RUSSELL I don't think it will affect them much, I hope not. We didn't expect to win every game the rest of t...
JOHN RUSSELL He?s a good kid, works hard and has a good work ethic. You look in our clubhouse and he fits in very...
JOHN RUSSELL DeSalvo threw a hell of a game. Especially after we got two runs, he was hitting his spots and chang...
JOHN RUSSELL He's hitting well from both sides of the plate. He's been picking up everybody else.
JOHN RUSSELL We haven't been able to stretch him out, so we're trying to gradually increase him.
JOHN RUSSELL You can't say it's a slump; he's just starting out a little slow, just like a lot of guys do. Things...
JOHN RUSSELL I think he's got all the tools that you look for as far as an outfielder. He's got the tools to be s...
JOHN RUSSELL Once we get some things ironed out and guys start getting a little more comfortable, things will tur...
JOHN RUSSELL Games like this, you have to give Columbus a lot of credit. They came out swinging the bats very agg...
JOHN RUSSELL It's tight on occasion. It's a good pitch for him, obviously.
JOHN RUSSELL Any young pitcher who has stuff like Brito does, (needs) consistency. (He) has to be able to command...
JOHN RUSSELL The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans _ an intern camp of sorts.
JOHN RUSSELL People are there by choice. It's increasingly unusual that undergraduates are willing to commit thei...
JOHN RUSSELL Ginny Brown-Waite is marching in lockstep with President Bush every step of the way. On Medicare, on...
JOHN RUSSELL We do not have an extradition treaty with Taiwan, but we will make every effort to return them to th...
JOHN RUSSELL We do not have an extradition treaty with Taiwan, but we will make every effort to return them to th...
JOHN RUSSELL What life companies have to do is get their costs down to less than 1 percent of funds under managem...
JOHN RUSSELL When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and ...
JOHN RUSSELL To cut a whetstone with a razor.
ANDREW FLETCHER, LORD INNERPEFFER (1) Like his that lights a candle to the sun.
ANDREW FLETCHER, LORD INNERPEFFER (1) Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18
1 JOHN 3:18 No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm.
JOHN LORD O'BRIAN There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge a...
JOHN LORD O'BRIAN Selfishness leads to nothingness. Generosity and benevolence leads to great reward,” he explained.
JOHN W LORD There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was c...
JOHN W LORD Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Elizabeth 1.
ELIZABETH 1 Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
JOHN HAMILTON, LORD BELHAVEN Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe, They sit, they l...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss? How ta...
JAMES THOMSON (1) So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout Of petulant capricious sec...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Synods are mystical Bear-gardens. Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens, And other Members of...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness? For witnesses, like...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Your pettifoggers damn their souls, To share with knaves in cheating fools.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Tho...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) He knew whats'ever 's to be known, But much more than he knew would own.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Deep sighted in intelligence, Ideas, atoms, influences.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse, 'Tis then delightful misery no m...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Nothing's more dull and negligent Than an old, lazy government, That knows no interest of stat...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
ECCLESIASTES 11:1 He ne'er consider'd it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth, And very wisely would lay fo...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The trenchant blade Toledo trusty. For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself f...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by Algebra.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind: And some,...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The self-same thing they will abhor One way, and long another for.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er, ...
JAMES THOMSON (1) God never had a church but there, men say, The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles, I dou...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick (Though he gave his name to our Old Nick).
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Authority is never without hate.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser star...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse. He'd prove a buzzard is no fo...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) While I deduce, From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings, The symphony of spring.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Let Zephyr only breathe And with her tresses play.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For now the field is not far off Where we must give the world a proof Of deeds, not words.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic; He could distinguish, and div...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm, But draw their swords to do th...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Through thick and thin.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Why should not Conscience have vacation As well as other Courts o' th' nation? Have equal powe...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation.
JAMES THOMSON (1) H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis true no lover has that pow'r T' enforce a desperate amour, As he that has two strings t' ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Look before you ere you leap.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) This was the penn'worth of his thought.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call; For what is worth, in an...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) What makes all doctrines plain and clear?-- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which wa...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit; 'Twas Presbyterian true blue; ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
JAMES THOMSON (1) His fear was greater than his haste: For fear, though fleeter than the wind, Believes 'tis alw...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Fear is an ague, that forsakes And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes; And they'll opine the...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And as the French we conquer'd once, Now give us laws for pantaloons, The length of breeches a...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage.
THOMAS COGAN (1) He that is down can fall no lower.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, Th...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat An honest name.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Of evening tinct, The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine.
JAMES THOMSON (1) He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song.
JAMES THOMSON (1) The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Videlicit, That each man swore to do his best To damn and perjure all the rest.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang Shoots through...
JAMES THOMSON (1) As you sow y' are like to reap.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Invite the rook who high amid the boughs, In early spring, his airy city builds, And ceaseless...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyles...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prel...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark, A...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Scroundrel maxim.
JAMES THOMSON (1) And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do, To make a poet excellent...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) If the husband once give way To his wife's capricious sway, For his breeches he next day ...
JAMES THOMSON 1 A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs.
JAMES THOMSON 1 Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
JAMES THOMSON 1 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Her polish'd limbs, Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire; Beyond the pomp of dress; for ...
JAMES THOMSON (1) O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, And...
JAMES THOMSON (1) He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no; That would, as soon as e'er she...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight (Mysterious veil,...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er, To try one desp'rate med'cine more; For where your case ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.
JAMES THOMSON (1) 'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin; And therefore no true saint allo...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lus...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) With books and money placed, for show Like nest eggs, to make clients lay, And for his false o...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, That grace is founded in dominion.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) There is nothing new under the sun.
ECCLESIASTES 1:9 For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges, And dullest nonse...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours, Of winter's past or coming void of care, Well p...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) Linnets . . . sit On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock.
JAMES THOMSON (1) A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more di...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glor...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn; Ere yet the shadows fly, ...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up, At once ...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.
GEORGE COOPER (1) Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you; Who pours abundance o'er you...
JAMES THOMSON (1) And though it be a two-foot trout, 'Tis with a single hair pulled out.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!
JAMES THOMSON (1) Unconscious humor.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain, He that is beaten may be said ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged, As wise philosop...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over Whate'er the crabb...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale; And, arching proud his neck,...
JAMES THOMSON (1) When autumn scatters his departing gleams, Warn'd of approaching winter, gather'd, play The sw...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The swallow sweeps The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose, Sir Knight, that I am one of those, I might suspect, and take...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven, The Tempest growls; but as it nearer comes, A...
JAMES THOMSON (1)