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 | ""Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it." | |
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Found in the topic Desire.
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| "O"er the glad water of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless,
and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey
our empire, and behold our home!" | |
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Found in the topic Sea.
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| "Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound
beneath me as a steed That knows his rider." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most
wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look
down on the hate of those below." | |
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Found in the topic Mountains.
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| "What men call gallantry and gods adultery, Is much more common where
the climate"s sultry." | |
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Found in the topic Adultery.
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| "Pleasure"s a sin, and sometimes sin"s a pleasure." | |
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Found in the topic Sin.
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| "I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a
drawer to count, and cry over them once a week." | |
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Found in the topic Money.
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| "Physicians mend or end us; But though in health we sneer, when sick
we call them to attend us, without the least propensity to jeer." | |
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Found in the topic Doctor.
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| "The tenor"s voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the
beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant,
noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow." | |
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Found in the topic Affectation.
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| "There?s nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms As rum and true
religion." | |
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Found in the topic Calm.
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| "Friendship is Love without his wings!" | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all
judged justly?" | |
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Found in the topic Judge.
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| "Man"s love is of man"s life a thing apart, "Tis woman"s whole
existence." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter Sermons and
soda-water the day after." | |
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Found in the topic Pleasure.
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| "There"s music in the sighing of a reed; There"s music in the gushing
of a rill; There"s music in all things, if we have ears; The earth is but
the music of the spheres." | |
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Found in the topic Music.
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| "To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind." | |
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Found in the topic Misanthrope.
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| "Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface
of this world, All things are weighed by the false scale of custom." | |
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Found in the topic Gems.
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| "Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And Life"s
enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim." | |
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Found in the topic Time.
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| "Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes
the world to know it." | |
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Found in the topic Jealous.
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| "And, after all, what is a lie? "Tis but The truth in
masquerade." | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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