Quotes of Sydney Smith

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Surprise is so essential an ingredient of wit that no wit will bear repetition.

- Sydney Smith

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“ Time is persistent, and we need to make the best of it. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ She was rain to a parched desert She was color to a gray sky She was the beautiful butterfly you longed to possess But I let her fly For fear of breaking her wings! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. ”

- Rachel Vincent

“ As an African elite, look within and ask, what can I do to change the present African narratives? What niche can I carve and do my uncompromising best to lift this continent? For my sake and for the sake of my children Jumoke Odepe ”

- Jumoke Odepe

“ Most people never truly live because they never do what they truly love. ”

- Tanner Walling

“ That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams. ”

- Jocelyn Soriano

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I’m gay: well, the fact that I’m flamboyantly gay. ”

- Ross Mathews

“ Your love needs no explanation, and their sin does not deserve your revenge. ”

- Praharsh Prasoon

“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. ”

- P.C. Cast

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ Sometimes you never realize how much you like someone, until you watch them liking someone else. ”

- Unknown