Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
chance half join minute others
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
invention
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
constantly human mankind object preaching remind supply
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
french men sexes women
As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
man
I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.
cold jump scramble stand thinking worth
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
convince effect fool hear man produces talk
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool
funny knives two
The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.
men poverty poor
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
greatness men people
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
morning resolution form
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
army politeness good-nature
Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
summer weather flesh
Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
new-year years three
Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.