Sydney Smith Quotes

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

Sydney Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 3, 1771 - February 22, 1845

Topics

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The only thing wider than my family's mean streak is my family's cheap streak.

Steve Rushin

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Tony Robbins

ResponsibilityWhateverTakeHappens

Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.

Rod Stewart

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I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.

Ruud Gullit

DeterminationEyesWinYouKnowSee

As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.

Louis Navellier

MoneyBondWillDoubleRuleYour

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Jose Saramago

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Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

Jonathan Raban

SlowSpeedPlaySometimesWashington

I'm very well-rounded. It's mixed martial arts.

Demetrious Johnson

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I used to hate my bottom because as a dancer, you're supposed to have nothing there.

Bonnie Langford

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In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things that aren't words: grunts, groans, gasps.

Phil LaMarr

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I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.

Pete Rose

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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Rene Daumal

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