Quote #44

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

More from Sydney Smith

  1. Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea?-how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
  2. 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…
  3. Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
  4. We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today.
  5. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
  6. Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
  7. 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…
  8. What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

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