Quotes
Quotes - Jerrold
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps.
Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.
Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.
Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
