“ When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature. Sydney Smith
“ He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary and music. Sydney Smith
“ Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. Sydney Smith
“ Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. Sydney Smith
“ Heat madam! It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. Sydney Smith
“ Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due. Sydney Smith
“ Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. Sydney Smith
“ Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures. Sydney Smith
“ To do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. Sydney Smith
“ Going to marry her? Impossible! You mean a part of her; he could not marry her all himself. It would be a case, not of bigamy but trigamy; there is enough of her to furnish wives for the whole parish.… Sydney Smith
“ Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. Sydney Smith
“ Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. Sydney Smith
“ Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out. Sydney Smith
“ Hope is the belief more or less strong that joy will come desire is the wish it may come. Sydney Smith
