Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward,… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
