#thin

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#greatest #little #mistakes #nothing #only

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#berkeley #bishop #destroyed #experienced #fate

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#being #calamity #courage #everything #great

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#anything #base #flexible #gained #generous

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#dean #done #heads #lay #their

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#celebration #contain #even #fact #illusion

I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be made available in any emergency, from fire, insurrection, or any thing else. ↗

— Thomas L. Smith

#arsenal #available #company #else #emergency

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#comfortable #coming #feel #funny #funny thing

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#himself #man #many #pleasure #really

When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#audience #i #liberal #mind #open