Samuel Pepys > Quotes

“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. ”
― Samuel Pepys

“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.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“Great talk among people how some of the Fanatiques do say that the end of the world is at hand, and that next Tuesday is to be the day. Against which, whenever it shall be, good God fit us all!”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys