What's Ben |
What's Verse |
Stinginess & Sharing see also GIVING, GRATITUDE and GREED & POVERTY. |
Wish a miser long life,
and you wish him no good. [1738] | "Long life to the miser!"
"Some favor," says Wiser. |
Meanness is the Parent of Insolence. [1752] | Scrooge’s tip?
Twist-ed lip. |
Mine is better than Ours. [1756] | Mine? Fine.
Ours? Sours. |
Stubbornness see also ADVICE. |
You may sometimes be much in the wrong, in owning
your being in the right. [1754] | Right to fight
For "I'm right"? |
Style |
A Man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place. [1745] | (With no court robe)
Judged well … the globe. |
How many mortifications must he suffer, that cannot bear any thing but beauty, order, elegance & perfection! Your man of taste, is nothing but a man of distaste. [1748] | Life’s horse-laughed, … debased
(Through thoroughbred “taste”). |
Nice Eaters seldom meet with a good Dinner. [1751] | Finicky’s spouse
-- A lifelong grouse! |
Success & Ruin see also SELF-DESTRUCTION. |
Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow. [1736] | Remote with me?
With my TV? |
Success has ruin'd many a
Man. [1752] | Midas chokes
On gold jokes. |
Setting too good an Example is a Kind of Slander seldom forgiven. [1753] | Example
Can trample. |
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