Charles Lamb Famous Quotes



"Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people."

"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected."

"Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength."

"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is."

"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once."


Charles Lamb Quotations






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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
Humphrey Davy

Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

"No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head."
Terry Josephson

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
Annie Dillard

"Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit."
James Allen

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Alice Walker

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl Buck

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.
David Dean Rusk

I went to a store and asked if they had anything to put under coasters.
Steven Wright