Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
life children mistake
Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.
life half world
The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.
life math culture
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
life friendship food
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
men hands way-in-life
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.
funny knives two
The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.
men poverty poor
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
greatness men people
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
morning resolution form
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
army politeness good-nature
Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
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.
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.
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.
reading book men
Some men have only one book in them, others a library.