10 Quotes by John Wolcot

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe’er he touch’d to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease – Touch them with gold, they’ll turn to what you please.

It is money makes the mare to trot.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down.

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony’s vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

No, let the monarch’s bags and others holdThe flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.