20 ordspråk av John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester)

John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester)

John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester)

John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester) föddes den 1 april 1647 och dog den 26 juli 1680
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Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

The only objection against the Bible is a bad life

For all men would be cowards if they durst

E'en her fair hand, which might bid heat return To Frozen age, and make old hermits burn, Applied to my dead cinder, warms no more Than fire to ashes, could past flames restore

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known

Womankind more joy discovers, Making fools, than keeping lovers

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one

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. . . .

Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast.

Dead, we become the lumber of the world.

Ere time and place were, time and place were not;
Where primitive nothing something straight begot;
Then all proceeded from the great united what.

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.

A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.

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.

And ever since the Conquest have been fools.

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