"Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly."

--

Source : Francis Atterbury, Nitish K. Basu (1740). “A History of English Literature: The Norman conquest to the dawn of Renaissance & Geoffrey Chaucer”, p.105

Francis Atterbury

#Degenerates Quotes #Hospitality Quotes #Madness Quotes

“A person hears only what they understand.”
“I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive claims I should agree with their agenda because it will make me more money, I put my hand on my walletand check it after they leave, just to make sure nothing's missing.”
“I choose to be authentic in everything I do”
“Now or never was the time.”
“The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.”
“Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.”
“We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.”
“Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?”

You may also like:

Gilbert Burnet
Former Bishop of Salisbury
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Politician
John Arbuthnot
Physician
Robert Walpole
Former Great Britain. Prime Minister.
William Warburton
Writer