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(1771—1845)

English clergymanwriter

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

(1771—1845)

English clergymanwriter

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

(1771—1845)

English clergymanwriter

Lord Dudley was one of the most absent men I think I ever met in society. One day he met me in the street, and invited me to meet myself. 'Dine with me today; dine with me and I will get Sydney Smith to meet you.' I  […]

(1771—1845), His Wit and Wisdom, 1900

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

(1920--)

U.S. psychotherapist, in The Second Sin

If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

(1920--), The Second Sin

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

(1721—1771), Scottish novelist

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Misers are no fun to live with, but they make great ancestors.

(1937--), playwright

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.