I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. |
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. |
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools |
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools |
If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people |
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. |
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. |
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. |
If you will please people, you must please them in their own way |
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. |
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. |
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. |
In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own; for men in general are very much alike, and though one has one prevailing passion, and another has another, yet their operations are much the same; and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases, |
In seeking wisdom, thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool |
In the case of scandal as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief |