Sydney Smith Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Sydney Smith quotes, Sydney Smith sayings, and Sydney Smith proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

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. Sydney Smith
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. Sydney Smith
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. Sydney Smith
If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from all fermented liquors. Sydney Smith
We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today. Sydney Smith
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. Sydney Smith
We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today. Sydney Smith
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. Sydney Smith
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. Sydney Smith
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. Sydney Smith
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature. Sydney Smith
We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today. Sydney Smith
Brevity in writing is what charity is to all other virtues - righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other. Sydney Smith
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? Sydney Smith
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. Sydney Smith
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. Sydney Smith
Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused. Sydney Smith
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. Sydney Smith
No furniture is so charming as books. Sydney Smith
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. Sydney Smith
What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia? Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. Sydney Smith
There is much virtue in a kiss of honest love. Sydney Smith
Take short views, hope for the best, and trust in God. Sydney Smith
There is but one method of success, and that is hard labor, and a man who will not pay that price for distinction had better at once dedicate himself to the pursuit of the fox. Sydney Smith
There are many ways of being frivolous, on;y one way of being intellectually great; that is honest labor. Sydney Smith
Never try to reason the prejudice out of man; it was not reasoned into him and and cannot be reasoned out. Sydney Smith
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man; it was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out. Sydney Smith
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. Sydney Smith
Humanity is a duty made known and enjoined by revelation, and ever keeping pace with the progress of Christianity. Sydney Smith