The 80+ John Selden Quotes

Old Friends Are Best. King James Used To Call For His Old Shoes; They Were The Easiest For His Feet.

Ceremony Keeps Up Things: 'tis Like A Penny Glass To A Rich Spirit, Or Some Excellent Water; Without It The Water Were Spilt, And The Spirit Lost.

Take A Straw And Throw It Up Into The Air, You May See By That Which Way The Wind Is.

Fine Wits Destroy Themselves With Their Own Plots, In Meddling With Great Affairs Of State.

He That Hath A Scrupulous Conscience Is Like A Horse That Is Not Well Weighed; He Starts At Every Bird That Flies Out Of The Hedge.

Thou Little Thinkest What A Little Foolery Governs The World.

Gentelmen Heve Ever Been More Temperate In Their Religion Than Common People, As Having More Reason.

The Hall Was The Place Where The Great Lord Used To Eat . . . He Ate Not In Private, Except In Time Of Sickness . . . Nay, The King Himself Used To Eat In The Hall, And His Lords Sat With Him, And He Understood Men.

Commonly We Say A Judgment Falls Upon A Man For Something In Him We Cannot Abide.

We Measure The Excellency Of Other Men By Some Excellency We Conceive To Be In Ourselves.

Marriage Is A Desperate Thing.

No Man Is The Wiser For His Learning