John Wolcot Quotes

#1. 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

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

John Wolcot

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

John Wolcot

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

John Wolcot

#5. It is money makes the mare to trot.

John Wolcot

#6. 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

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

John Wolcot

#8. No, let the monarch's bags and others holdThe flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

John Wolcot

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

John Wolcot

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

John Wolcot

#11. 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

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

John Wolcot

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

John Wolcot

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

John Wolcot

#15. 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

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

John Wolcot