Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
sarcastic land earth
Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.
reading book men
Some men have only one book in them, others a library.
silence enemy might
His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
wise strong powerful
It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.
ignorance ignorant-masses numbers
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
new-year years three
Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.
summer weather flesh
Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
army politeness good-nature
Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
morning resolution form
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
greatness men people
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
men poverty poor
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
funny knives two
The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.
cost dearest everybody eyes
The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping