People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. – Laurence Sterne
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. – Laurence Sterne
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. – Laurence Sterne
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. – Laurence Sterne
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, – though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, – the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! – Laurence Sterne
Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. – Laurence Sterne
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil. – Laurence Sterne
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. – Laurence Sterne
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. – Laurence Sterne
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. – Laurence Sterne
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. – Laurence Sterne
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. – Laurence Sterne
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. – Laurence Sterne
‘Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one. – Laurence Sterne
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one. – Laurence Sterne