A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
Quotes by 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.
Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
The sad vicissitude of things.
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
"Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my Uncle Toby, "but nothing to this."
"Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught."
I am sick as a horse.
Whenever a man talks loudly against religion,-always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions which have got the better of his creed.









