Laurence Sterne Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Laurence Sterne quotes and sayings page 2 (novelist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 41 we have.
“God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.”
“Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.”
“I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.”
“Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.”
“Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.”
“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.”
“An English man does not travel to see English men.”
“People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.”
“Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.”
“Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.”
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