Quote #42

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

More from Sydney Smith

  1. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
  2. Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea?-how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
  3. 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…
  4. That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.
  5. I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
  6. The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves inf…
  7. Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
  8. We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today.

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