Quotes by Lamb, Charles

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. >>

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fle >>

Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life. >>

Quotations about Children

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done >>

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of nece >>

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickl >>

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles