The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
LAURENCE STERNE There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.
LAURENCE STERNE When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's le...
LAURENCE STERNE Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow, Leave things of the future to fate; What's the use to an...
LAURENCE STERNE These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.
LAURENCE STERNE It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his sheep.
LAURENCE STERNE He found a city of bricks, he left one of marble.
LAURENCE STERNE The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their title...
LAURENCE STERNE Look into the world
LAURENCE STERNE Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
LAURENCE STERNE I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
LAURENCE STERNE Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
LAURENCE STERNE We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
LAURENCE STERNE For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
LAURENCE STERNE 'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; a...
LAURENCE STERNE I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to t...
LAURENCE STERNE First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but h...
LAURENCE STERNE When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but th...
LAURENCE STERNE Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong,...
LAURENCE STERNE There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
LAURENCE STERNE People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they nev...
LAURENCE STERNE Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature...
LAURENCE STERNE Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
LAURENCE STERNE So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither c...
LAURENCE STERNE A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests hi...
LAURENCE STERNE Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not ...
LAURENCE STERNE Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
LAURENCE STERNE Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to...
LAURENCE STERNE 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one.
LAURENCE STERNE Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of ...
LAURENCE STERNE What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who inter...
LAURENCE STERNE The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
LAURENCE STERNE In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
LAURENCE STERNE Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
LAURENCE STERNE Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
LAURENCE STERNE But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
LAURENCE STERNE One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate h...
LAURENCE STERNE Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur...
LAURENCE STERNE So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly,...
LAURENCE STERNE Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
LAURENCE STERNE An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
LAURENCE STERNE I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
LAURENCE STERNE Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only re...
LAURENCE STERNE An English man does not travel to see English men.
LAURENCE STERNE I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top o...
LAURENCE STERNE People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which...
LAURENCE STERNE Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the ...
LAURENCE STERNE God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
LAURENCE STERNE Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
LAURENCE STERNE There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to suppo...
LAURENCE STERNE Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not ...
LAURENCE STERNE 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
LAURENCE STERNE When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent f...
LAURENCE STERNE A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in mo...
LAURENCE STERNE "He shall not die, by God," cried by uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's cha...
LAURENCE STERNE Our armies swore terrible in Flanders.
LAURENCE STERNE I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to...
LAURENCE STERNE There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse
LAURENCE STERNE I should have no objection to this method, but that I think it must smell too strong of the lamp.
LAURENCE STERNE For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies
LAURENCE STERNE Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for con...
LAURENCE STERNE I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top o...
LAURENCE STERNE People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which...
LAURENCE STERNE If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the...
LAURENCE STERNE Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out ...
LAURENCE STERNE Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the w...
LAURENCE STERNE All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose ...
LAURENCE STERNE Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep
LAURENCE STERNE When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent f...
LAURENCE STERNE You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done ...
LAURENCE STERNE I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to...
LAURENCE STERNE I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next
LAURENCE STERNE Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge
LAURENCE STERNE God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb
LAURENCE STERNE Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only re...
LAURENCE STERNE I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
LAURENCE STERNE 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one
LAURENCE STERNE Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no ...
LAURENCE STERNE So that whether the pain of a wound in the groin (cæteris paribus) is greater than the pain of a wo...
LAURENCE STERNE The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
STERNE One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate ...
STERNE Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human natu...
STERNE To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our mann...
LAWRENCE STERNE I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible.
HEDDA STERNE There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to co...
LAURENCE FOX The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the hom...
LAURENCE TRIBE As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside...
LAURENCE YEP There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or pro...
LAURENCE TRIBE The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. How...
LAURENCE YEP They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years con...
LAURENCE BINYON Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatu...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and wen...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
PETER LAURENCE The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
LAURENCE LEAMER If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to...
LAURENCE OLIVIER I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward...
LAURENCE OLIVIER Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playbo...
LAURENCE OLIVIER But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and ...
LAURENCE GONZALES Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all - considering the options, the positives and the neg...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten t...
LAURENCE OLIVIER We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
LAURENCE OLIVIER The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he kno...
LAURENCE LEE What does brace mean, anyway? Brace. Such an odd word. It comes from the Latin brachium, meaning arm...
LAURENCE GONZALES In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cr...
LAURENCE YEP I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought ca...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I thi...
LAURENCE OLIVIER They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years...
LAURENCE BINYON I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elem...
LAURENCE YEP If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
LAURENCE PETER It was a toast, not a roast.
LAURENCE MEYER I've always lived above my income. When I was earning $100 a week, I spent $200... always borrowing ...
LAURENCE HARVEY I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.
LAURENCE FISHBURNE But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences w...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Over the course of the millennia, all these multitudes of ancestors, generation upon generation, hav...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE There is a temptation to take advantage. Just like any other aspect of society, there are the good (...
LAURENCE GODFREY So, if this were indeed my Final Hour, these would be my words to you. I would not claim to pass on ...
MARGARET LAURENCE When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight...
LAURENCE OLIVIER Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
LAURENCE OLIVIER I don't believe for a minute that the proof of God's existence is achieved. My faith prohibits me fr...
LAURENCE COSSé It's something he learned as a bodybuilder. You get up on stage and twist and turn your body to alwa...
LAURENCE LEAMER Does American Media have the right to have that impact in the election? ... The big question with Gi...
LAURENCE LEAMER the integrity of the electoral process.
LAURENCE LEAMER I don't know how many paintings there are-probably thousands. They're everywhere, and it's almost im...
LAURENCE NEUFELD The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War star...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Well, where am I really? I'm 200 feet off the ground in a manmade maze.
LAURENCE GONZALES A mother can read all the child-rearing books and can subscribe to any theory of parenting, but what...
LAURENCE SHAMES There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you g...
LAURENCE FOX Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplacea...
MARGARET LAURENCE Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which mo...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes ...
LAURENCE HOPE Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the...
LAURENCE SHAMES Strange, weird things that no man may say, things Humanity hides away; secretly done, catch the ligh...
LAURENCE HOPE Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
LAURENCE HOPE Or, pale dispensers of my Joys and Pains, holding the doors of Heaven and of Hell.
LAURENCE HOPE I cannot forget that, just as my life was touching its fullest flower, love came and destroyed it al...
LAURENCE HOPE Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, / Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
LAURENCE HOPE Why is love such a sorrowful thing, this I never could understand; passion and pain are linked toget...
LAURENCE HOPE For this is Wisdom; to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to...
LAURENCE HOPE Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by ...
LAURENCE HOPE We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.
LAURENCE GONZALES He's very easygoing and friendly, someone you would like immediately. He knows how to explain to the...
LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormo...
LAURENCE MOORE We were hugging each other like we always do.
LAURENCE FISHBURNE It began to turn against him, because his opponents were very, very shrewd and calculating in the wa...
LAURENCE LEAMER It made me feel like I was someone important. It was a nice feeling. They came out here to watch me ...
LAURENCE MARONEY Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, / Less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
LAURENCE HOPE With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, / England mourns for her dead across the sea.
LAURENCE BINYON When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
MARGARET LAURENCE They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condem...
LAURENCE BINYON The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more fre...
LAURENCE GONZALES We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little t...
LAURENCE COSSé Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.
MARGARET LAURENCE We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.
LAURENCE BINYON Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity. It is up to us, as adults, to see that they...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.
MARGARET LAURENCE Being good or being evil is not something that is inherent in our nature over which we have no contr...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we ha...
LAURENCE YEP By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying pathol...
LAURENCE MILLER When the chairman made his recommendation at the start of the go-round, the game was up, it was over...
LAURENCE MEYER I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't...
MARGARET LAURENCE The Committee continues to see the removal of accommodation as the focus of policy and has given no ...
LAURENCE MEYER We are pleased to finally reach an agreement on major remedies to deal with major water pollution pr...
LAURENCE LAU Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't s...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE I'm a very good packer, but I probably take too much in the way of toiletries. You only really n...
LAURENCE FOX 'Richard III' is a really difficult play to film - it's involved, often obscure. I felt ...
LAURENCE OLIVIER It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary t...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms...
LAURENCE OLIVIER Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find your...
LAURENCE GONZALES Fantasy, myth, legend, truth - all are intertwined in the story that is Scotland.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE Do I think the shareholders are in a better position today than yesterday? Yes.
LAURENCE PETTIT The reason that kids take chances when they drive is not because they're ignorant. It's because othe...
LAURENCE STEINBERG The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public...
LAURENCE STEINBERG Life without parole for kids presumes that they can't be changed.
LAURENCE STEINBERG The older you are, the more hours you can withstand without seeing harmful effects. But generally, n...
LAURENCE STEINBERG We are not very good at looking at people when they are 16 and predicting what they will be like whe...
LAURENCE STEINBERG If you have these four things, it doesn't matter what ethnic group you're from, you'll do well in sc...
LAURENCE STEINBERG If they were to drink multiple glasses of this mixture or concoction, I think there'd be a potential...
LAURENCE SPERLING Some of this benefit we see now may be a combination of our increased awareness of heart disease in ...
LAURENCE SPERLING Mr. Knight doesn't have $107 million. It remains to be seen what becomes of Death Row.
LAURENCE STRICK He has no choice, the way these people have forced his hand.
LAURENCE STRICK He doesn't pull any punches. He tells the pastors what's on his heart.
LAURENCE WHITE It's often said that there are countries where bribery is a way of life, and that's still the case.
LAURENCE URGENSON This is an amazing and rare collection of Michael Jordan memorabilia that doesn't come along everyda...
LAURENCE TONEY We're not trying to displace (offline sales); we're trying to offer another channel. Our goal is rea...
LAURENCE TONEY I believe a pastor has an obligation to speak to the moral issues of the country on the basis of the...
LAURENCE WHITE If you're having a Republican state convention, you want everybody there. This isn't that kind of me...
LAURENCE WHITE The Internet means record companies have to fight a bit harder.
LAURENCE BELL The extension of the contract demonstrates our strong confidence in the Chinese aviation market and ...
LAURENCE BARRON It's a good move for Airbus because we don't have enough space in Beijing now and China Eastern is t...
LAURENCE BARRON It is the 20th anniversary of the successful co-operation of Airbus with China's aviation industry, ...
LAURENCE BARRON