Top 41 Quotes by Laurence Sterne

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

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.