K. Lamb Quotes
From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.
May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.
O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.
So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy".
I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
The medium obscured the message.
If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.
I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.
For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.
Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.
Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.
Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.
I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.