George Crabbe

Lawyers are: By law's dark by ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.

Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern showing a want of breeding or more commonly a spirit of sheer impudence.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.

In general satire, every man perceives a slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs

A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

The game is never lost till won.

With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.