
“Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
No. 512 (17 October 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Nothing is given so profusely as advice.”
On ne donne rien si libéralement que ses conseils.
Maxim 110.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Many receive advice, few profit by it.”
Maxim 149
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 158.
“We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.”
Quod vult habet, qui cupere quod sat est potest.
Maxim 559 [Mimi et aliorum sententiae 677]
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.”
The Defeat of Death
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XXIII - Death
Source: Knots Untied (1877), Ch. XVII: "The Fallibility of Ministers", p. 383