Quote #37
He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.
More from Sydney Smith
- Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to…
- Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
- If you could be alarmed into the semblance of modesty, you would charm everybody; but remember my joke against you about the Moon and the S…
- I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
- Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.
- In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your styl…
- Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl And, scarce suspected, animate the whole.
- Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.