H.A. Lamb Quotes

People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Children see magic because they look for it.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

I am in love with this green Earth.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.