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.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

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.

Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.