John Wolcot



John Wolcot (May 9, 1738 – January 14, 1819) was an English satirist who wrote under the nom-de-plume of "Peter Pindar".

Quotes

 * What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.
 * To the Royal Academicians; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * No, let the monarch’s bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.
 * To Kien Long; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Ode iv. Compare: "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice,—almighty gold", Ben Jonson, Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.


 * Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.
 * Expostulatory Odes, Ode xv; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down.
 * Farewell Odes, Ode iii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * People may have too much of a good thing: Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.
 * Subjects for Painters, The Gentleman and his Wife; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 617.