He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.