Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
helps men
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
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.
reading book men
Some men have only one book in them, others a library.
children men water
He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.
men religion trying
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
power men ends
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
religious men law
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool
men hands way-in-life
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.
french men sexes women
As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
bridle dying fifteen horse manages paid per pouring schoolboy seven spoon taxed youth
The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings him
gives good knowledge reader takes writer writers-and-writing
The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
alliance dangerous deal errors extensive great obtain truth
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
best diet praise
Praise is the best diet for us, after all