I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.