I could never hate anyone I knew.
CHARLES LAMB I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find o...
CHARLES LAMB She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
CHARLES LAMB Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 I am disposed to say gra...
CHARLES LAMB These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accide...
CHARLES LAMB We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
CHARLES LAMB Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
CHARLES LAMB Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creat...
CHARLES LAMB I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and th...
CHARLES LAMB The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth...
CHARLES LAMB Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my ...
CHARLES LAMB 'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'
CHARLES LAMB Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB Lawyers I suppose were children once.
CHARLES LAMB He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
CHARLES LAMB A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
CHARLES LAMB The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
CHARLES LAMB Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
CHARLES LAMB My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
CHARLES LAMB Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions fo...
CHARLES LAMB When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with...
CHARLES LAMB Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
CHARLES LAMB We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always...
CHARLES LAMB A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an od...
CHARLES LAMB A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feath...
CHARLES LAMB Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothi...
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by acciden...
CHARLES LAMB The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
CHARLES LAMB How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. S...
CHARLES LAMB For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hea...
CHARLES LAMB The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
CHARLES LAMB To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
CHARLES LAMB Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
CHARLES LAMB Presents, I often say, endear absents.
CHARLES LAMB The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
CHARLES LAMB In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
CHARLES LAMB Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
CHARLES LAMB So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to ...
CHARLES LAMB The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races:...
CHARLES LAMB We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquire...
CHARLES LAMB Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he i...
CHARLES LAMB I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find ou...
CHARLES LAMB Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gr...
CHARLES LAMB It is good to love the unknown.
CHARLES LAMB Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
CHARLES LAMB Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
CHARLES LAMB A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topogra...
CHARLES LAMB Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
CHARLES LAMB Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
CHARLES LAMB The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superf...
CHARLES LAMB My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
CHARLES LAMB Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
CHARLES LAMB I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
CHARLES LAMB Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
CHARLES LAMB I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All...
CHARLES LAMB Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
CHARLES LAMB I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained...
CHARLES LAMB Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
CHARLES LAMB Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
CHARLES LAMB Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think abou...
CHARLES LAMB Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
CHARLES LAMB The vices of some men are magnificent.
CHARLES LAMB There is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident.
CHARLES LAMB Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
CHARLES LAMB 'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB Lawers, I suppose, were children once.
CHARLES LAMB Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the co...
CHARLES LAMB Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.
CHARLES LAMB The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudi...
CHARLES LAMB No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their ti...
CHARLES LAMB We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
CHARLES LAMB A little thin, flowery border round, neat, not gaudy.
CHARLES LAMB Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races,...
CHARLES LAMB A child's a plaything for an hour.
CHARLES LAMB Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras—dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies—may reproduce themselv...
CHARLES LAMB Gone before / To that unknown and silent shore.
CHARLES LAMB Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he i...
CHARLES LAMB I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All...
CHARLES LAMB Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever
CHARLES LAMB What is reading, but silent conversation.
CHARLES LAMB I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as an...
CHARLES LAMB It [a pun] is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
CHARLES LAMB For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
CHARLES LAMB My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more
CHARLES LAMB Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creato...
CHARLES LAMB Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it
CHARLES LAMB Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dyi...
CHARLES LAMB Truths, which transcend the searching School-men's vein, / And half had staggered that stout Stagiri...
CHARLES LAMB Riddle of destiny, who can show / What thy short visit meant, or know / What thy errand here below?
CHARLES LAMB Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less
CHARLES LAMB Cards are war, in disguise of a sport
CHARLES LAMB I feel particularly sad about the families,
CHARLES LAMB I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
CHARLES LAMB Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing
CHARLES LAMB I hate a man who swallows it [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his tast...
CHARLES LAMB There is a pleasure in affecting affectation
CHARLES LAMB I came home . . . hungry as a hunter.
CHARLES LAMB My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it
CHARLES LAMB His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.
CHARLES LAMB When I consider how little of a rarity children are / that every street and blind alley swarms with ...
CHARLES LAMB He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides
CHARLES LAMB I could never hate anyone I knew
CHARLES LAMB We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon ...
CHARLES LAMB Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved
CHARLES LAMB Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life
CHARLES LAMB The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superf...
CHARLES LAMB Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
CHARLES LAMB New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
CHARLES LAMB Who first invented work and bound the free / And holiday-rejoicing spirit down?
CHARLES LAMB I have no ear.
CHARLES LAMB Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the...
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do something by stealth and have it found out by accident
CHARLES LAMB I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
CHARLES LAMB All people have their blind side - their superstitions; and I have heard her declare, under the rose...
CHARLES LAMB A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topogra...
CHARLES LAMB Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the co...
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident
CHARLES LAMB The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen
CHARLES LAMB Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
CHARLES LAMB Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in chil...
CHARLES LAMB Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
CHARLES LAMB We're snowbirds. This is a lot better fair than we have back in Michigan.
ALAN LAMB He had played kayak polo once before and was interested in playing more. Six weeks later, we'd built...
ALAN LAMB It's a five-on-five, full contact game. There are two 10-minute halves. Each half starts after the b...
ALAN LAMB It's a five-on-five, full contact game, ... There are two 10-minute halves. Each half starts after t...
ALAN LAMB He had played kayak polo once before and was interested in playing more. Six weeks later, we'd built...
ALAN LAMB I was practicing my dry-land paddle skills in a basketball court near North Village one night and an...
ALAN LAMB Normally we stay about 10, 11 cents higher than most because we're full-service, ... I'm not guilty ...
ALAN LAMB A year from now you may wish you had started today.
KAREN LAMB A child is fed with milk and praise.
MARY LAMB However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from...
WALLY LAMB The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
WALLY LAMB If this job has any pressures I haven't found them yet,
AMANDA LAMB We do find lots of surprises when we go back,
AMANDA LAMB I think I was getting too old for them, ... The new girl is 21 so, yeah, that must be it. They quite...
AMANDA LAMB We were en route but we got horribly lost, ... We were on the outskirts of Budapest for about an hou...
AMANDA LAMB Doesn't it cost a lot of money to have all these truckers sitting here?
AMANDA LAMB Some of these guys have been here a couple of days. Some of these guys have been here a while.
AMANDA LAMB Do you think it's a waste to have all this stuff sitting here?
AMANDA LAMB I love my job, and I love my life. I mean, there's the pressures of being away from family and peopl...
AMANDA LAMB In May, we could see things were going from beginning to end, ... But it was a fragile system, and w...
BRIAN LAMB It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with b...
BRIAN LAMB "From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, fro...
BRIAN LAMB Twenty-five years ago, I was a guy with an idea to give the public access to political events, witho...
BRIAN LAMB When you add it all up, I've committed about 1.8 years of my life to reading books for the series. I...
BRIAN LAMB More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they thi...
BRIAN LAMB The users themselves are remarkably responsible.
BRIAN LAMB Today the Court took up the question of televising these proceedings and a majority of the Court rem...
BRIAN LAMB My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not ...
BRIAN LAMB We protested and appealed to let our cameras in, but Scalia won and we were kept out, ... Albany is ...
BRIAN LAMB After careful consideration I've decided we need to move in a different direction from a staffing st...
BOBBY LAMB Anytime you are ranked No. 2 in the country on the road, people are going to come out gunning for yo...
BOBBY LAMB We're not shooting from the hip when we talk to recruits about Furman. We're shooting from the heart...
BOBBY LAMB That's the thing about Furman. I just felt like, if I stayed at Furman long enough I'd get a shot. I...
BOBBY LAMB We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions ar...
BOBBY LAMB Coming to Furman to play quarterback was just natural for me. But I knew I wanted to go into the coa...
BOBBY LAMB It had nothing to do with our season because we had an outstanding year.
BOBBY LAMB His first five days at spring practice were probably the best I've ever seen from anyone. The improv...
BOBBY LAMB We were good enough to win, to beat the national champion last year. You just got to hand it to Jame...
BOBBY LAMB They're very potent on offense. Defensively, they're a big strong team. We'll have to establish the ...
BOBBY LAMB Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.
WALLY LAMB Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
WALLY LAMB I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
WALLY LAMB This is what we've all been hoping and waiting for. This breaks the record for most distant explosio...
DONALD LAMB I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.
BRIAN LAMB Consumer purchase data this year show purchases of potatoes, rice, pasta, gravy, sauces, fresh veg a...
CHRIS LAMB He worked so hard to prepare for the season, changed his throwing motion, and then it all came crash...
TOM LAMB I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
WALLY LAMB Dog-strangling vine is one of the worst things to hit the planet.
LARRY LAMB I'm the average, everyday underdog and I want everyone to know we can do this, together, all of us. ...
CHUCK LAMB The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
WALLY LAMB I'm looking forward to the noose. Nothing better than a good hanging.
VICTORIA LAMB Berkman is a solid switch-hitting guy, he's the one guy they should be pitching around. Berkman is a...
MIKE LAMB In every charge, in every count, she was an active participant in the sexual assault of these childr...
DAVID LAMB My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not ...
BRIAN LAMB I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The de...
WALLY LAMB If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
WALLY LAMB All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth...
WALLY LAMB Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.
WALLY LAMB I think, in some ways, I like it when people tell me what they're thinking. I would rather have ...
BRIAN LAMB Mr. Mook has openly said, 'Dancers aren't athletes,' even though the cheerleaders are allowed to per...
ANYA LAMB I think a lot of us are starting to feel that sports are taking precedence over every other activity...
ANYA LAMB Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were...
WALLY LAMB You hear stories of when the Astros were playing San Diego [in 1998] and having to face Kevin Brown ...
MIKE LAMB Sometimes things are so insanely private, you don't even want to talk about them with yourself. Don'...
CATHY LAMB You are as ordinary as spring,' he murmured. 'As powerless as sunlight.' He ran his fingertips down ...
CHARLOTTE LAMB I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you... happily-ma...
WALLY LAMB The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire witho...
BRIAN LAMB We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewer...
BRIAN LAMB It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.
BRIAN LAMB I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
WALLY LAMB When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street....
WALLY LAMB This is a crime like I've never seen, one of infinite cruelty. They (the children) were infinitely h...
DAVID LAMB We have a deeper team than we had last year. We have quality in all areas with more athletes (100) o...
CORTNEY LAMB It's the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins in...
WALLY LAMB