Life Quotes

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

William Cobbett

Please your eye and plague your heart.

William Cobbett

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

William Cobbett

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

William Cobbett

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

William Cobbett

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

William Collins

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

William Collins

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!

William Collins

South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.

William Colby

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

William Congreve

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.

William Congreve

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

William Congreve

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.

William Congreve

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

William Congreve

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

William Congreve

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

William Congreve

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

William Cowper

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

William Cowper

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

William Cowper

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

William Cowper

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

William Cowper