Maxioms by David Garrick
Prologues like compliments are loss of time;
'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.
Prologues like compliments are loss of time;
'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.
Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.
Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.
Cards were at first for benefits designed,
Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
Cards were at first for benefits designed,
Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind;
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.
Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind;
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.
Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
