Quotes by Cobbett, William

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your ev >>

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his l >>

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; a >>

Quotations about Speculation

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four. >>

If there were no bad speculations there could be no good investments; >>

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when >>

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of speculation; but which ought to be called Gambling.

Cobbett, William