Charles Lamb Quotes
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
Riches are chiefly good, because they give us time.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
I have not a thing to say; nothing is of more importance than another.
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.
I love to lose myself in other men's minds... Books think for me.
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.
It is good to love the unknown.
Gone before, to that unknown and silent shore.
She unbent her mind afterwards, over a book.
Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
The red-letter days now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
Any thing awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
We love to read, talk, sit silent, eat, drink, sleep, by candle-light. They are everybody's sun and moon.
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
