Quotes
Quotes - Defoe
Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And 't will be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.
Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.
Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army od sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
