"A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything." ~Laurence Sterne
"An English man does not travel to see English men." ~Laurence Sterne
"I take a simple view of life. It is to keep your eyes open and get on with it." ~Laurence Sterne
"Injuries come only from the heart." ~Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
"So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy—and ... to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil." ~Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), British author, clergyman.
"There are a thousand unnoticed openings ... which let a penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain ... that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, -or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him." ~Laurence Sterne
"To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners." ~Lawrence Sterne