John Wilmot Quotes - Page 2

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.

Late children are early orphans.

Custom does often reason overrule.

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence. . . .

Born to myself, I like myself alone.

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

Dead we become the lumber of the world.

If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.