Nonfiction Books

"An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow."

"Laws like to Cobwebs catch small Flies, Great one break thro' before your eyes."

"A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward."

"If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self."

"He that is rich need not live sparingly,"

"An innocent Plowman is more worthy than a vicious Prince."

"He that cannot obey, cannot command."

"As Charms are nonsense, Nonsense is a Charm."

"Don't value a man for the Quality he is of,"

"Teach your child to hold his tongue, he'll learn fast enough to speak."

"A good Man is seldom uneasy, an ill one never easie."

"Do good to thy Friend to keep him,"

"Jack Little sow'd little, & little he'll reap."

"Happy's the Wooing that's not long a doing."

"Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason."

"All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful."

"Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive."

"Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long"

"Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise."

"Where there's Marriage without Love,"

"Wedlock, as old Men note, hath likened been, Unto a publick Crowd or common Rout; Where those that are without would fain get in, And those that are within would fain get out. Grief often treads upon the Heels of Pleasure, Marry’d in Haste, we oft repent at Leisure; Some by Experience find these Words misplac’d, Marry’d at Leisure, they repent in Haste."

"Hope of gain, lessens pain."

"Better slip with foot than tongue."

"Beauty & Folly are old compares"

"Fools multiply folly."

"Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog."

"If you ride a Horse, sit close and tight, If you ride a Man, sit easy and light."

"All things are easy to Industry, All things difficult to Sloth."

"No man e'er was glorious, who was not laborious."

"What one relishes, nourishes."

"Take this remark from Richard poor and lame, Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame."

"Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads."

"Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, not what you please."

"Without justice, courage is weak."

"You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy fair wife without danger of horns."

"Innocence is its own Defence."

"Nothing more like a Fool, than a drunken Man."

"He is ill cloth'd, who is bare of Virtue."

"Distrust & caution are the parents of security."

"He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas."

"The proof of gold is fire, the proof of woman, gold;"

"After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy."

"Eat to live, and not live to eat."

"The poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much,"

"Fools make feasts and wise men eat 'em."

"Great Talkers, little Doers."

"Hunger never saw bad bread."

"He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say Farewel–"

"He's a Fool that makes his Doctor his Heir."

"Remember that the media have two basic functions. One is to indoctrinate the elites, to make sure they have the right ideas and know how to serve power. In fact, typically the elites are the most indoctrinated segment of a society, because they are the ones who are exposed to the most propaganda and actually take part in the decision-making process. For them you have the New York Times, and the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, and so on. But there’s also a mass media, whose main function is just to get rid of the rest of the population—to marginalize and eliminate them, so they don’t interfere with decision-making. And the press that’s designed for that purpose isn’t the New York Times and the Washington Post, it’s sitcoms on television, and the National Enquirer, and sex and violence, and babies with three heads, and football, all that kind of stuff."