Roger LEstrange Quotes

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Wickedness may prosper for a while.