Quote#Humour & Wit
Nice philosophy
Quote byJohn Ford · 1586–1639
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?), Act I, sc. i..
English (original)
Nice philosophy May tolerate unlikely arguments, But heaven admits no jest.
— John Ford
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Flattery Is monstrous in a true friend.
A bachelor May thrive by observation, on a little. A single life's no burden: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.
Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.
Her words are trusty heralds to her mind.
Oh, happy kings, Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts.
Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.