Quotes by Daniel Defoe

Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.

Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.

Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there And twill be found upon examination The latter has the largest congregation.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.