Quotes
Quotes - Smith
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smith.
Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above; And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless My senses with the sight of her I love.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town--the tide rose to an incredible height: the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
The church is the great lost and found department.
Hail, glorious edifice, stupendous work! God bless the Regent, and the Duke of York.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.
That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.
If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.
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 sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, "Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide."
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence! - Horace Smith and James Smith,
