Quote by Sydney Smith (1771-1845)

• Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.

• You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

• Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

• He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

• To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.

• There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.