Laurence Sterne
10 quotations
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.