And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
Matthew Prior

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
Matthew Prior

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
Matthew Prior

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
Matthew Prior

For hope is but a dream for those that wake.
Matthew Prior

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
Matthew Prior

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
Matthew Prior

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
Matthew Prior

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
Matthew Prior

The ends must justify the means.
Matthew Prior


They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.
Matthew Prior

They talk most who have the least to say.
Matthew Prior

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
Matthew Prior