Zitate von Sydney Smith
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Sydney Smith:
Überlaß' Dich nie der Melancholie; widersteh' ihr hartnäckig, denn sie nistet sich schnell als Gewohnheit ein.
Informationen über Sydney Smith
Geistlicher, Schriftsteller (England, 1771 - 1845).
Sydney Smith · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Sydney Smith wäre heute 252 Jahre, 11 Monate, 15 Tage oder 92.391 Tage alt.
Geboren am 03.06.1771 in Woodford (Essex)
Gestorben am 22.02.1845 in London
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge
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Weitere 74 Zitate von Sydney Smith
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It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. Their only idea of wit . . . is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.
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Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce-suspected, animate the whole.
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Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.
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Mankind is always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now you make them happy twenty years hence, by the memory of it.
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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
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Minorities . . . are almost always in the right.
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Music: The only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
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My definition of marriage . . . it 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.
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My idea of heaven is, eating pâté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets.
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Never speak to me about summer; summer has no charms for me. I look forward anxiously to the return of bad weather and blazing fires.
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No enjoyment, however inconsiderable, is confined to the present moment. A man is the happier for life from having made once an agreeable tour, or lived for any length of time with pleasant people, or enjoyed any considerable interval of innocent pleasure.
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No furniture so charming as books.
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Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.
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Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
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Poverty is not disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
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Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
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Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined to-day.
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Take short views, hope for the best, and trust in God.
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That knuckle-end of England-that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.
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