Quotes by Sterne, Laurence

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse >>

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the s >>

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. >>

Quotations about Jokes and Jokers

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to >>

The average man is proof enough that a woman can take a joke. >>

Jokes are grievances. >>

'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.

Sterne, Laurence