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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Handsome is that handsome does.
Topic: Appearance
Source: Tom Jones (bk. IV, ch. XII), also see George Granville
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Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us.
Topic: Conscience
Source: None
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So when two dogs are fighting in the streets,
When a third dog one of the two dogs meets:
With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,
And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.
Topic: Contention
Source: Tom Thumb the Great (act I, sc. 5, l. 55)
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It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough:
I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
Topic: Duty
Source: The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (act I, sc. 3)
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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food
It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood--
Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good.
Oh! the roast beef of England.
And Old England's roast beef.
Topic: Eating
Source: Grub Street Opera (act III, sc. 2), "The Roast Beef of Old England"
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Topic: Envy
Source: None
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Illustrious predecessors.
Topic: Example
Source: in the "Covent Garden Journal"
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Source: None
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. -Henry Fielding.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business,
To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;
And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
Topic: Intemperance
Source: Tom Thumb the Great (act I, sc. 2)
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None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than
three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by
in silence that very large and powerful body which form the
fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.
Topic: Journalism
Source: Covent Garden Journal
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Topic: Joy
Source: None
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Republic of letters.
Topic: Literature
Source: Tom Jones (bk. XIV, ch. I)
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Topic: Melancholy
Source: None
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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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The modesty's a candle to thy merit.
Topic: Modesty
Source: Tom Thumb the Great (act I, sc. 3, l. 8)
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The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot,
And when fate writ my name it made a blot.
Topic: Names
Source: Amelia (II, 9)
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Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the
eternal fitness of things?
Topic: Order
Source: Tom Jones (bk. IV, ch. IV)
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Topic: Please title this page. (envy.html)
Source: None
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But me no buts.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Rape upon Rape (act II, sc. 2)
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Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and
both cracked.
Topic: Prudence
Source: Love in Several Masques (act V, sc. 13)
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
Topic: Prudence
Source: None
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Topic: Relationships
Source: None
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This story will never go down.
Topic: Story Telling
Source: Tumble-Down Dick (air I)
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
Topic: Tenderness
Source: None
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When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough:
I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
Topic: Thankfulness
Source: The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (act I, sc. 3)
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
Topic: Want
Source: None
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Amiable weakness.
Topic: Weakness
Source: Tom Jones (bk. X, ch. VIII)
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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Topic: Worth
Source: None
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