Quote - Aphorism - Proverb
|
info
|
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
Category: Age Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Category: Gambling Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They judge gambling as some atheists judge religion, by its excesses.
Category: Gambling Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
Category: Games Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
Category: Gardens Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!
Category: Health Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.
Category: Holidays Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
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.
Category: Holidays Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Category: Holidays Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.
Category: Libraries Author: Charles Lamb Source: Essays of Elia
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
Mother's love grows by giving.
Category: Mothers Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
Category: Perfection Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Category: Perspective Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
Category: Poker Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Category: Puns Author: Charles Lamb
|
0 Give your vote +5
| |
|
comments
|
