Henry Fielding quotes

" A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. " # News # Newspapers # Words

" If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. " # Money # God # Devil

" Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. " # Education # Morality # Arts and Artists

" He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. " # Adversity # Friends and Friendship # Prosperity

" Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. " # Gossip # Freedom # Power

" Where the law ends tyranny begins. " # Law and Lawyers

" One fool at least in every married couple. " # Marriage

" Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. " # Reason # Poverty and The Poor # Riches

" Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. Today it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we. " # Alcohol and Alcoholism # Friends and Friendship # Love

" When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief. " # Children