John Wolcot

thumb|John Wolcot, by John Opie 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 holdThe 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. External links Category:Physicians from England Category:Satirists from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Clergy from England Category:1738 births Category:1819 deaths