What did Roger L'Estrange mean by: We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end. - Roger L'Estrange Journalist · England Copy
+ Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Roger L'Estrange, Obliged, Sour, Ungrateful, 0 - Roger L'Estrange Journalist · England
+ Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Roger L'Estrange, 0 - Roger L'Estrange Journalist · England
+ He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Roger L'Estrange, Devil, Wages, Wealth, 0 - Roger L'Estrange Journalist · England
+ Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Roger L'Estrange, Favors, Practice, 0 - Roger L'Estrange Journalist · England
+ Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Roger L'Estrange, Brain, 0 - Roger L'Estrange Journalist · England
+ The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Roger L'Estrange, Arbitrary, Exercise, Tyrants, 0 - Roger L'Estrange Journalist · England
+ A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Roger L'Estrange, Applause, Scandal, 0 - Roger L'Estrange Journalist · England
+ The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Roger L'Estrange, Laughing, 0 - Roger L'Estrange Journalist · England
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia