Aaron Hill Quotes & Sayings

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor. — Aaron Hill

Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish. — Aaron Hill

What position didn't I play last season? — Aaron Hill

Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses. — Aaron Hill

Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between. — Aaron Hill

First, then, a woman will, or won't, - depend on't; If she will do't, she will; and there's an end on't. But, if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront: and jealousy injustice. — Aaron Hill

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. — Aaron Hill

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. — Aaron Hill

Trust me
with women worth the being won,
The softest lover ever best succeeds. — Aaron Hill

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself
for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory. — Aaron Hill

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy. — Aaron Hill

Let shining Charity adorn your zeal,
The noblest impulse generous minds can feel. — Aaron Hill

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil. — Aaron Hill

Order, thou eye of action. — Aaron Hill

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer. — Aaron Hill

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them. — Aaron Hill

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake. — Aaron Hill

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme. — Aaron Hill

When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd. — Aaron Hill

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth. — Aaron Hill

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes. — Aaron Hill

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow. — Aaron Hill

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade. — Aaron Hill

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood. — Aaron Hill

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by. — Aaron Hill

She who means no mischief does it all. — Aaron Hill

Let never man be bold enough to say,
Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray:
The first crime, past, compels us into more,
And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before. — Aaron Hill

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium. — Aaron Hill

Reason gains all people by compelling none. — Aaron Hill

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. — Aaron Hill

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving. — Aaron Hill