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“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“And so to bed.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“A fish kept in a glass of water will live forever”
― Samuel Pepys

“Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. ”
― Samuel Pepys

“Great talk among people how some of the Fanatiques do say that the end of the world is at hand, and that next Tuesday is to be the day. Against which, whenever it shall be, good God fit us all!”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“God forgive me, I was sorry to hear that Sir W Pens maid Betty was gone away yesterday, for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone, she being very pretty. I have also a mind to my own wench, but I dare not, for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife.”
― Samuel Pepys

“I find it a hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“It is strange what weather we have had all this winter; no cold at all; but the ways are dusty, and the flyes fly up and down, and the rose-bushes are full of leaves, such a time of the year as was never known in this world before here.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“I do find myself to become more and more thoughtful about getting of money than ever heretofore.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“I was mightily troubled with a looseness, and feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none, I having called the maid up out of her bed, she had forgot I suppose to put one there; so I was forced in this strange house to rise and shit in the chimney twice.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“I saw the girl of the house, being very pretty, go into a chamber, and I went in after her and kissed her.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“neighbour of ours, Mr. Hollworthy, a very able man, is also dead by a fall in the country from his horse, his foot hanging in the stirrup, and his brains beat out.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“having not for some days been in the streets; but now how few people I see, and those looking like people that had taken leave of the world.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“[…] folyvást azon gondolkodom, milyen nagyot is fordult mostanában a világ, és hogy az emberek holnap mit meg nem tesznek az ellen, amit ma még félelmükben vagy érdekből vallanak és meg is cselekszenek.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“He showed me a black boy that he had, that died of a consumption, and being dead, he caused him to be dried in an oven, and lies there entire in a box.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“and in general it was a great pleasure all the time I staid here to see how I am respected and honoured by all people; and I find that I begin to know now how to receive so much reverence, which at the beginning I could not tell how to do.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“He tells me we are like to receive some shame about the business of his bastarde with Jack Noble; but no matter, so it cost us no money.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“Up and with my wife to church, where Mr. Mills made an unnecessary sermon on Original Sin, neither understood by himself, nor the people.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“All our physicians cannot tell what an ague is, and all our arithmetique is not able to number the days of a man;" which, God knows, is not the fault of arithmetique, but that our understandings reach not the thing.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“Úgy hozta hát a véletlen, hogy lássam a király lefejezését a White Hall udvarán, és lássam az első vért is, amely a király megbosszulására kiontatott a Charing Crosson. Polcokat állítattam be dolgozószobámba.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“Ma reggel álmomból hirtelen felriadva, könyökömmel úgy arcon és nyakon találtam ütni a feleségemet, hogy a fájdalomra felébredt, amit nagyon sajnáltam; aztán ismét elaludtam.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“This done and finished my Proclamation, I returned to the Nazeby, where my Lord was much pleased to hear how all the fleet took it in a transport of joy, showed me a private letter of the King's to him, and another from the Duke of York in such familiar style as to their common friend, with all kindness imaginable. And I found by the letters, and so my Lord told me too, that there had been many letters passed between them for a great while, and I perceive unknown to Monk. And among the rest that had carried these letters Sir John Boys is one, and that Mr. Norwood, which had a ship to carry him over the other day, when my Lord would not have me put down his name in the book. The King speaks of his being courted to come to the Hague, but do desire my Lord's advice whither to come to take ship.”
― Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete

“George Vines felvitt a tornya tetejébe, ahol az áruló Cooke feje van kitűzve, meg Harrisoné a Westminster Hall másik oldalán. Innen jól láttam őket, és a szép londoni panorámát is.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“Ma járt le a borivás és a színház ellen tett fogadalmam, s úgy határoztam, élek is e szabadságommal, mielőtt újra fogadalmat teszek.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“Hanem ezentúl kevésbé tisztelem a királyokat, látva, hogy az esőnek ők sem tudnak parancsolni.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

“for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone, she being very pretty. I had also a mind to my own wench, but I dare not for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“I did to my trouble see all the way that 'elle' did get as close 'a su marido' as 'elle' could, and turn her 'mains' away 'quand je' did endeavour to take one.... So that I had no pleasure at all 'con elle ce' night. When we landed I did take occasion to send him back a the bateau while I did get a 'baiser' or two, and would have taken 'la' by 'la' hand, but 'elle' did turn away, and 'quand' I said shall I not 'toucher' to answered 'ego' no love touching, in a slight mood.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys