151 Quotes by Sydney Smith

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from all fermented liquors.

We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.

Brevity in writing is what charity is to all other virtues - righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other.

It is all nonsense about not being able to work without ale, and gin, and cider, and fermented liquors. Do lions and cart-horses drink ale?

Mankind are always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused.