John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
John Wolot 1738-1819 John Bartlett
| 1 |
| What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all. |
| To the Royal Academicians. |
| 2 |
| No, let the monarch’s bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold. 1 |
| To Kien Long. Ode iv. |
| 3 |
| Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out. |
| Expostulatory Odes. Ode xv. |
| 4 |
| A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down. |
| Farewell Odes. Ode iii. |
| Note 1. See Jonson, Quotation 15. [back] |