Philosophical Sayings

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

My mistresses do not in the least engage my feelings. Power is my mistress.

This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog.

If a woman abandoned her marital home, how can we compel her to reintegrate it?

Either you're crazy, or I am!

Both, sir!

He wished he had his POCKETS full, too.

Oh!, no, women do not die for such trifles.

Why, write to her to add another leaf to the book of sufferings.

I wished the craftsman 'had been a Quaker preacher before he had made the cups.'

Mrs Washington Says that she has wrote all the news she Could get (and ladies you know are never at a loss).

amidst all the wonders recorded in holy writ no instance can be produced where a young Woman from real inclination has preferred an old man.

whether he was a whig or a tory?

On one side I am called upon to remember the parrot, on the other to remember the dog. For my own part I should not pine much if both were forgot.

I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck, and sit like patience on a monument whilst they are delineating the lines of my face. It is a proof among many others, of what habit and custom can effe…

Ah, Lee, you are a funny fellow, see, that bird is laughing at you.

As I have heard since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you, that I have not as yet composed the latter.

Mr Campbell whom I never saw (to my knowledge) has made a very formidable figure of the Commander in Chief giving him a sufficient portion of Terror in his Countenance.

When you beat my pitch, young gentlemen, I'll try again.