Tag: John Wilmot

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves.

The Difference lies, as far as I can see,

Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

John Wilmot

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst:

And Honesty’s against all common Sense.

John Wilmot

Dead we become the lumber of the world.

John Wilmot

Then Old Age, and Experience, hand in hand,

Lead him to death, and make him understand,

After a Search so painful, and so long,

That all his Life he has been in the wrong.

John Wilmot

There’s not a thing on earth that I can name,

So foolish, and so false, as common fame.

John Wilmot

The Elephant is never won with Anger,

Nor must that man, who would reclaim a Lion,

Take him by the teeth.

John Wilmot

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

John Wilmot