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• Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
  -- Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) -- The Art of Poetry, Canto iii, Line 374...
• There, take," says Justice, "take ye each a shell; We thrive at Westminster on fools like you.
  'T was a fat oyster! live in peace,--adieu....
• Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
  -- Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) -- The Art of Poetry, Canto i, Line 75...
• The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. -- Boileau
• Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
  -- Nicholas Boileau (1636-1711)...
• He who is priceless cannot sell himself to others.
• You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire.
  All you're doing is recording it. -- Art Buchwald...
• A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything.
  A choice is all that is left to him. -- H. Matthew...
• He lives by rule who lives himself to please. -- Crabbe