Parenting Quotes by Laurence Sterne

10 Parenting quotes by Laurence Sterne

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Laurence Sterne’s parenting musings carry his classic wit, offering ten short reflections that blend humor with insight. The page feels like a charming, literary pause for readers who appreciate a clever take on the challenges of raising children.

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The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.

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Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

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Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but…

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My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at…

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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to…

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There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain…

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If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is…

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“There is not an oath, or at least a curse amongst them, which has not been copied over and over again out…

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“I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to…

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“I wonder what's all that noise, and running backwards and forwards for, above stairs, quoth my father, addressing himself, after an hour…

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The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

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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;…

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When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

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Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long…

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Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

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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…

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The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

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Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation…

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The best hearts are ever the bravest.

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