Daniel Defoe Quotes - Page 2

Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

He that Opposes his own Judgment against the Current of the Times, ought to be back'd with unanswerable Truths; and he that has that Truth on his Side, is a Fool, as well as a Coward, if he is afraid to own it, because of the Currency or Multitude of other Mens Opinions.

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

Law is but a heathen word for power.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.