I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age.

Quote by William Cobbett

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's...

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's...

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the...

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the...

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's...

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's...

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it...

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it...

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of...

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of...

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed,...

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed,...

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits...

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits...

The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but...

The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but...

You never know what you can do till you try.

You never know what you can do till you try.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but...

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but...

Please your eye and plague your heart.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard...

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard...

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.