Beware of the fury of a patient man.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Fury Warning
F
Moral Remedies
M
There are very few things in this world which will bear too much looking into; and the best of all moral remedies for any kind of sorrow is—distraction.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Good Lawyers
G
It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Out-of-Door Relief
O
The great principle of out-of-door relief is to give the paupers exactly what they don’t want; and then they get tired of coming.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Object in Life
O
A good tempered man may have just as good an object in life as a bad-tempered one.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Not Repine
N
We must not repine; it is the common lot of humanity.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Understood Before Speaking
U
There is nothing so comfortable as to feel that you are understood before you speak, and that your motives are apprehended before they are explained.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Strange Mutability
S
I am ruminating on the strange mutability of human affairs.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Waiting for Time
W
Time and tide wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Young Wisdom
Y
An old man’s caution is young man’s wisdom.
Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers