In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.