Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.