More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  1. Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike-no bail, no demurrer.
  2. A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.
  3. You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.
  4. An oyster may be crossed in love.
  5. The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
  6. 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
  7. A progeny of learning.
  8. Never say more than is necessary.

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