Quotes by Sterne, Laurence

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generou >>

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his m >>

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Read much, but not many books. >>

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of >>

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as s >>

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

Sterne, Laurence