Quotes by Prior, Matthew

"To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit."

Prior, Matthew on debt   

"Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician."

Prior, Matthew on doctors   

"Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way."

Prior, Matthew on goals
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"Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake."

Prior, Matthew on hope
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"In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing."

Prior, Matthew on argument   

"Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey."

Prior, Matthew on love   

"Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind."

Prior, Matthew on marriage   

"Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?"

Prior, Matthew on song and singing   

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"They talk most who have the least to say."

Prior, Matthew on speakers and speaking   

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"And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say."

Prior, Matthew on bores and boredom   

"Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise."

Prior, Matthew on tact and tactfulness   

"They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think."

Prior, Matthew on talkativeness