Quotes By Laurence Sterne

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!