More from Laurence Sterne

  1. Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
  2. Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, cried my uncle Toby, - but nothing to this. - For my own part, I could not have a heart to curse my …
  3. Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? - This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
  4. 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 m…
  5. Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
  6. As for the clergy - No - If I say a word against them, I'll be shot. - I have no desire, - and besides, if I had, - I durst not for my soul…
  7. The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
  8. I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma - let him get off as he can.

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