More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

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