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Samuel Pepys Quotes

«Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.»
«Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.»
Author: Samuel Pepys (Administrator) | Keywords: wedding
«The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.»
«Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.»
«Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.»
«It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting off farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain begins»
«Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.»
Author: Samuel Pepys (Administrator) | Keywords: spare
«I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.»
«But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.»
«Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was.»