Top 5 John Wolcot Quotes

British satirist and physician; his pseudonym was Peter Pindar

John Wolcot (May 9, 1738 – January 14, 1819) was an English satirist who wrote under the nom-de-plume of "Peter Pindar".

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Pen Names: Peter Pindar

Alternative Names: Peter Pindar Wolcott • John Wolcott • P. Pindar

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People may have too much of a good thing:
Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.

A fellow in a market town,
Most musical, cried razors up and down.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry draws one out.

No, let the monarch’s bags and others hold
The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

What rage for fame attends both great and small!
Better be damned than mentioned not at all.