John Selden Quotes

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

Those that govern most make least noise.

Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.

We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.

The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Never king dropped out of the clouds.

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.

Marriage is a desperate thing.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Never tell your resolution beforehand.

Prayer should be short without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that He knows best what is good for us.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.