John Wolcot Quotes

• Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

  John Wolcot

  Motivational, Reality, Affection

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• Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

  John Wolcot

  Art, Political, Gold

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• The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

  John Wolcot

  Men, May, Foolish

  John Wolcot (1812). “The works of Peter Pindar”, p.460

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• Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

  John Wolcot

  Giving, Trout, Sin

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• The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find,
  Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind.

  John Wolcot

  Mistake, Lying, Heart

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• Thus every dog at last will have his day -
  He who this morning smiled, at night may sorrow;
  The grub today's a butterfly tomorrow.

  John Wolcot

  Dog, Morning, Butterfly

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• No, let the monarch's bags and others hold
  The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

  John Wolcot

  Gold, Bags, Als

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.

  John Wolcot

  Childhood, Age, Immortality

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• To wear long faces, just as if our Maker,
  The God of goodness, was an undertaker.

  John Wolcot

  Long, Hypocrisy, Faces

  John Wolcot (1797). “The works of Peter Pindar”, p.116

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• Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
  And every grin so merry draws one out.

  John Wolcot

  Healing, Doubt, Nails

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• With vivid words your just conceptions grace,
  Much truth compressing in a narrow space;
  Then many shall peruse, but few complain,
  And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.

  John Wolcot

  Space, Envy, Grace

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• A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down.

  John Wolcot

  Music, Razors, Towns

  John Wolcot (1812). “The works of Peter Pindar”, p.136

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• O delicious kiss,
  Why thou so sudden art gone?
  Lost in the moment thou art won?

  John Wolcot

  Art, Kissing, Gone

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• People may have too much of a good thing:
  Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.

  John Wolcot

  Eggs, People, May

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 617), 1922.

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• It is money makes the mare to trot.

  John Wolcot

  Money, Mares

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• What rage for fame attends both great and small!
  Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

  John Wolcot

  Rage, Fame

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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