Quotes
Quotes - Smith
For dear is the Emerald Isle of the ocean, Whose daughters are fair as the foam of the wave, Whose sons unaccustom'd to rebel commotion, Tho' joyous, are sober--tho' peaceful, are brave.
Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. -N Smith.
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.
"Thou wert not, Solomon! in all thy glory Array'd," the lilies cry, "in robes like ours; How vain your grandeur! Ah, how transitory Are human flowers!"
We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Thanks to Stace -Sydney Smith.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. -Alexander Smith.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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.
Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?
We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored!
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
