Quotes by John Ford

8 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Letter X. Edited by John Bruce. Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour to his titles.— filed under Honor

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.— filed under Love

Montaigne. A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.— filed under Matrimony

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.— filed under Matrimony

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.— filed under Melancholy

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.— filed under Melancholy

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.— filed under Occupations-Tailoring

Diamonds cut diamonds.— filed under Proverbs

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