Sydney Smith

It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch
understanding.

It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch
understanding.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live
with able men, and to suffer all read more

One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live
with able men, and to suffer all those pangs of inferiority which
the want of knowledge always inflicts.

The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping

The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always read more

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.