John Wolcot

"What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all."

"No, let the monarch’s bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold."

"Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out."

"A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down."

"People may have too much of a good thing: Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing."