People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in an engagement, he immediately looked upon himself as a dead man. He then bravely fought out the remainder of the day, perfectly regardless of all manner of danger, as becomes a dead man to be. So… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining;… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long - long since had ye numbered out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground. When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share
Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
