John Wilmot quotes

" Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories. " # Children # Marriage # Theory

" Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. " # Marriage # Children # Theory

" Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories. " # Marriage # Theory # Children

" The world appears like a great family, Whose lord, oppressed with pride and poverty, (That to the few great bounty he may show) Is fain to starve the numerous train below. " # Home # Poverty and The Poor # Family

" Dead we become the lumber of the world. " # America

" It is a good world to live in, To lend, or to spend, or to give in; But to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known. " # Borrowing # Friends and Friendship # Beggars

" There's not a thing on earth that I can name, So foolish, and so false, as common fame. " # Fame # Fools and Foolishness # Common Sense

" A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. " # Scandal # Poverty and The Poor # Happiness

" For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose, The best good man with the worst-natured muse. " # Sarcasm # Choice # Nature

" Angels listen when she speaks: She ’s my delight, all mankind’s wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder. " # Law and Lawyers # Love # Listening