26 Quotations by Laurence Sterne
- 1. 'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; a ...
- 2. A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests hi ...
- 3. All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose ...
- 4. Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out ...
- 5. For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
- 6. I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to t ...
- 7. I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun ...
- 8. In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
- 9. Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of ...
- 10. Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
- 11. Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
- 12. Now or never was the time.
- 13. Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the ...
- 14. One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate h ...
- 15. Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature ...
- 16. Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to ...
- 17. Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
- 18. People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they nev ...
- 19. Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, ...
- 20. Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.
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