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Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

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

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.— filed under Life

trans. For words are wise men's counters-they do but reckon by them-but they are the money of fools.— filed under Words

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.— filed under Proverbs