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Keep away from the fire! — Laurence Sterne

A coward never forgives. — Laurence Sterne

I like subordination, quoth my uncle Toby... — Laurence Sterne

The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,
through much tribulation. — Laurence Sterne

People don't want the raw data, but instead want marketers to decipher the tech speak for them and present the valuable insights. — Jim Sterne

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. — Laurence Sterne

The loneliness is the mother of wisdom. — Laurence Sterne

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. — Laurence Sterne

The best hearts are ever the bravest. — Laurence Sterne

I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.
Accordingly I set off thus: — Laurence Sterne

Only the brave know how to forgive — Laurence Sterne

An English man does not travel to see English men. — Laurence Sterne

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

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture. — Laurence Sterne

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

A good simile,
as concise as a king's declaration of love. — Laurence Sterne

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. — Laurence Sterne

Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. — Laurence Sterne

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge. — Laurence Sterne

Endless is the search of truth. — Laurence Sterne

And what of this new book the whole world makes such a rout about?
Oh ! 'tis out of all plumb, my lord,
quite an irregular thing! — Laurence Sterne

A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time. — Laurence Sterne

The brave only know how to forgive. — Laurence Sterne

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. — Laurence Sterne

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. — Laurence Sterne

Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat. — Laurence Sterne

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? — Laurence Sterne

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers? — Laurence Sterne

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. — Laurence Sterne

Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story ... — Laurence Sterne

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything. — Laurence Sterne

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. — Laurence Sterne

The sad vicissitude of things. — Laurence Sterne

I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one. — Hedda Sterne

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

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. — Laurence Sterne

Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question? — Laurence Sterne

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

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it. — Laurence Sterne

Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament. — Laurence Sterne

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all. — Laurence Sterne

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. — Laurence Sterne

I am sick as a horse. — Laurence Sterne

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see. — Hedda Sterne

"They order," said I, "this matter better in France." — Laurence Sterne

There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep. — Laurence Sterne

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught. — Laurence Sterne

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study. — Hedda Sterne

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The — Laurence Sterne

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune. — Laurence Sterne

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse. — Laurence Sterne

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages. — Laurence Sterne

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

Now or never was the time. — Laurence Sterne

I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame. — Laurence Sterne

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. — David Antin

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late. — Laurence Sterne

We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them — Laurence Sterne

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him. — Laurence Sterne

The best friends in the world may differ sometimes. — Laurence Sterne

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force. — Laurence Sterne

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom. — Laurence Sterne

It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together. — Laurence Sterne

For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds; — Edmund Spenser

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition. — Laurence Sterne

What persons are by starts they are by nature. — Laurence Sterne

The world is ashamed of being virtuous. — Laurence Sterne

Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. — Laurence Sterne

People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like. — Laurence Sterne

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,
and has wit in it, and instruction too,
if we can but find it out. — Laurence Sterne

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. — Laurence Sterne

It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one ... — Laurence Sterne

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything. — Laurence Sterne

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners — Laurence Sterne

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life. — Laurence Sterne

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. — Laurence Sterne

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. — Laurence Sterne

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy. — Laurence Sterne

Web analytics is a fire extinguisher. Your website is on fire and you're burning cash. — Jim Sterne

Alas, poor YORICK! — Laurence Sterne

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. — Laurence Sterne

We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions. — Laurence Sterne

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. — Laurence Sterne

Chance is the providence of adventurers. — Laurence Sterne

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. — Laurence Sterne

For me, cooking is an extension of love. — Hedda Sterne

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

For every ten jokes - thou hast got an hundred enemies ... — Laurence Sterne

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

ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question? Pray, what was your father saying? - Nothing. — Laurence Sterne

A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it. — Laurence Sterne

Customer relationships are defined by customers. — Jim Sterne

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. — Laurence Sterne

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. — Laurence Sterne

Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor. — Laurence Sterne

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. — Laurence Sterne

In a word, my work is digressive, and it is progressive too, - and at the same time. — Laurence Sterne

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance. — Laurence Sterne