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Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on, Who never said a foolish thing No ever did a wise one.


John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

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A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.
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JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade.
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER Natural freedoms are but just:
There's something generous in mere lust.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) For all men would be cowards if they durst
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) There's not a thing on earth that I can name,
So foolish, and so false, as common fame.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Ancient person, for whom I
All the flattering youth defy,
Long be it ere thou grow old,
...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life,
Is the best can be said for a very good wife.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange
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JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) The only objection against the Bible is a bad life
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) There's not a thing on earth that I can name,So foolish, and so false, as common fame.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Womankind more joy discovers, Making fools, than keeping lovers
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) And ever since the Conquest have been fools.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves.The Difference lies, as far as I can see,Not in the t...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Dead, we become the lumber of the world.
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JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Angels listen when she speaks:She 's my delight, all mankind's wonder;But my jealous heart would bre...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) E'en her fair hand, which might bid heat return To Frozen age, and make old hermits burn, Applied to...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
EARL ROCHESTER All men would be cowards if they could.
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EARL ROCHESTER Here lies our Sovereign Lord, the King whose word no man relies on: He never said a foolish thing no...
EARL ROCHESTER Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no ...
JOHN WILMOT Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast.
JOHN WILMOT Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no t...
JOHN WILMOT Then, if to make your ruin more,
You'll peevishly be coy,
Die with the scandal of a whore<...
JOHN WILMOT Now piercèd is her virgin zone;
She feels the foe within it.
She hears a broken amorous g...
JOHN WILMOT For Hell and the foul fiend that rules
God's everlasting fiery jails
(Devised by rogues, d...
JOHN WILMOT Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theo...
JOHN WILMOT Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three chi...
JOHN WILMOT This signior is sound, safe, ready, and dumb
As ever was candle, carrot, or thumb;
Then aw...
JOHN WILMOT My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman un...
EARL OF ARRAN Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of f...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Of all the tyrants the world affords, Our own affections are the fiercest lords.
EARL OF STERLING I must plough my furrow alone.
EARL OF ROSEBERY What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
EARL OF ROSCOMMON A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who ...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of ...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
EARL OF ROSCOMMON Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
EARL OF DERBY Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation betwe...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Take the tone of the company you are in.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A chapter of accidents.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Sacrifice to the Graces.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The race is not for the swift and we will come back. This is not a sprint. This is a distance race.
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ALI ROCHESTER Gibson had his transfer but was unable to start in two practice matches so he got the transfer and h...
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STEVE WILMOT We are remaining exclusively focused on the oceans. We do not get into social issues, we do not even...
DAVID WILMOT I desire to keep slavery and black people in the South in order to reserve the territories solely fo...
DAVID WILMOT Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow...
DAVID WILMOT The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which ...
DAVID WILMOT We didn't do a very good job. But we did it all right. The science was all right. We even advocated ...
DAVID WILMOT Come in every time you're in D.C. and teach me about the oceans. They didn't do that when I was a sc...
DAVID WILMOT Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.
DAVID WILMOT Call home the young who suffer senseless pain, And leave the war to those who taught them hate
FRANK WILMOT Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:...
JOHN OF DAMASCUS Sumer is y cumen in.
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MAJ. LEON WILMOT It was a domestic violence incident that escalated into a shooting. The male is deceased as a result...
MAJ. LEON WILMOT The people don't want this in their neighborhoods. They want their kids to be able to go out and pla...
MAJOR LEON WILMOT Chances are that if they're still living together, you can put it towards a domestic type situation.
MAJOR LEON WILMOT Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it i...
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WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING Knowledge is power.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory--death.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON 'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd, In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing. - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,
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WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON Yet all that I have learn'd (hugh toyles now past) By long experience, and in famous schooles, ...
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the w...
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM The multitude is always in the wrong.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.
LIONEL CRANFIELD, EARL OF MIDDLESEX If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I neve...
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay) Before the sad accounting da...
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON His withered fist still knocking at Death's door.
THOMAS SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET His drink, the running stream; his cup, the bare / Of his palm closed; his bed, the hard, cold groun...
THOMAS SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET So, in this way of writing without thinking,/ Thou hast a strange alacrity in sinking.
THOMAS SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the leng...
THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1ST EARL OF STRAFFORD As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that'...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD While in the progress of their long decay, Thrones sink to dust, and nations pass away.
FREDERICK HOWARD, FIFTH EARL OF CARLISLE Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever sed...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oa...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.
THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1ST EARL OF STRAFFORD In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire o...
THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1ST EARL OF STRAFFORD Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with e...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone; But those which soonest ...
JOHN NORRIS OF BEMERTON Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel. To l...
JOHN NORRIS OF BEMERTON The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
EARL NIGHTINGALE People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
EARL NIGHTINGALE You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've go...
EARL WEAVER Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
EARL WARREN The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
EARL WARREN One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
EARL WILSON People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I ...
EARL WEAVER Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to ...
EARL NIGHTINGALE Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bea...
EARL WARREN I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset abou...
EARL WARREN He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
EARL WILSON Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
EARL WILSON An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't ha...
EARL WILSON Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
EARL WILSON If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
EARL WILSON To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
EARL WILSON Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we...
EARL WILSON The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
EARL WILSON Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
EARL WILSON This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt...
EARL WILSON Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
EARL WILSON Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking s...
EARL WILSON If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
EARL WILSON A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
EARL WILSON Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
EARL WILSON Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
EARL WILSON Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
EARL WILSON Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
EARL WEAVER I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
EARL WEAVER When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its pl...
EARL WEAVER I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
EARL WEAVER To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 gu...
EARL WEAVER There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he ...
EARL WEAVER A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words...
EARL WEAVER A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who playe...
EARL WEAVER I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anythi...
EARL WEAVER The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
EARL WEAVER Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's lean...
EARL WEAVER A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smar...
EARL WEAVER There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're mak...
EARL WEAVER In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That'...
EARL WEAVER This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
EARL WEAVER Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
EARL WEAVER On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
EARL WEAVER No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
EARL WEAVER The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
EARL WEAVER Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always t...
EARL WEAVER The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
EARL WEAVER Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
EARL WEAVER Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
EARL WARREN Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any s...
EARL WARREN All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public educa...
EARL WARREN We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
EARL WARREN If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were convers...
EARL WARREN If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we lea...
EARL WARREN The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
EARL WARREN I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first...
EARL WARREN Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be ...
EARL WARREN I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
EARL WARREN