You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave. —Sydney Smith More about this quote Tags: wisdom foolishness gravity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Sydney Smith Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric.
More quotations from 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 More about this quote Tags: prejudice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Your ignorance, cramps my conversation. —Sydney Smith More about this quote Tags: ignorance conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. —Sydney Smith More about this quote Tags: life death nonsense Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email 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 More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge discretion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. —Sydney Smith More about this quote Tags: power impotence weakness change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. —Sydney Smith More about this quote Tags: prejudice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your ignorance, cramps my conversation. —Sydney Smith More about this quote Tags: ignorance conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. —Sydney Smith More about this quote Tags: life death nonsense Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge discretion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. —Sydney Smith More about this quote Tags: power impotence weakness change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “gravity” The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. —Douglas Adams More about this quote Tags: gravity irony flying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I could no more leave you than the earth could leave the sun. You'll always draw me back to you. —Amy A. Bartol in Iniquity More about this quote Tags: relationships gravity attraction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: love gravity physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down. —Mitch Hedberg More about this quote Tags: humor gravity jewelry necklaces Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. —Anthony Trollope More about this quote Tags: law gravity inevitability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. —Douglas Adams More about this quote Tags: gravity irony flying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I could no more leave you than the earth could leave the sun. You'll always draw me back to you. —Amy A. Bartol in Iniquity More about this quote Tags: relationships gravity attraction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: love gravity physics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down. —Mitch Hedberg More about this quote Tags: humor gravity jewelry necklaces Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. —Anthony Trollope More about this quote Tags: law gravity inevitability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email