...wise, or, unless his memory be hurt by disease or ill eonstitution of organs, excellently foolish. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever,...

...representing anything not subject to sense." We might quote against him his own pithy aphorism, — " Words are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools." CHAPTER IX. BERKELEYANISM. PERHAPS the only fruitful and important truth in Psychology which we may...

...1841. Words are the only things that last forever. 6924 Hazlitt: Table Talk. On Thought and Action. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools. 5925 Thomas Hobbes : The Leviathan. Pt. i. Ch. 4. There is no point where art so nearly touches nature...

...defense. 6. Art may err, but Nature can not miss. 7. Fools admire, but men of sense approve. 8. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools. 9. Where the law ends, tyranny begins. 10. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 11. In the...

...defense. 6. Art may err, but Nature can not miss. 7. Fools admire, but men of sense approve. 8. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools. 9. Where the law ends, tyranny begins. 10. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 11. In the...

...1841. Words are the only things that last forever. 5924 Hazl'M: Table Talk. On Thought and Action. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the monev of fools. 5925 Thomas Hobbes : The Leviathan. Pt. i. Ch. 4. There is no point where art so nearly...

...4. Linnets. 5. Lackeys. 6. Seventy. 7. Solvent. CROSS-WORD ENIGMA. San Jacinto. NUMERICAL ENIGMA. " Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools." THOMAS HODBES. To OUR PUZZLERS: Answers, to be acknowledged in the magazine, must be received not later than...

...received, the praise is but moderate; if refused the scorn is assured. Ben Jonson. DEFINITION OF. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools. НоЬЬея. Words are the wings of actions. Lavater. IMPORTANCE or. Words are often everywhere as...

...picking up the courtier's money, walked off, with the remark, " A fool and his money are soon parted." Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools,—HOBBES: Leviathan, Part I., ch. iv.; which is to say, in the words of Demaratus, King of Sparta,...

...thoughts be measured by our tongues. Colton. Words are women, deeds are men. — George Herbert. For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon...but they are the money of fools. — Thomas Hobbes. Words are but lackeys to sense, and will dance attendance without wages or compulsion. Swift. A man...