Quotes by Arbuthnot, John




Dr. John Arbuthnot, often known simply as Dr. Arbuthnot, (baptised April 29, 1667 February 27, 1735), was a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered today for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathos, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, and possibly The Dunciad), and for inventing the figure of John Bull..

"Law is a bottomless pit."

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"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."

Arbuthnot, John on politics
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"Biography is one of the new terrors of death."

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"Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing. "

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