My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it. Charles Lamb More Quotes by Charles Lamb More Quotes From Charles Lamb Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.' Charles Lamb toil smoking men Brandy and water spoils two good things. Charles Lamb food water two No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food. Charles Lamb prey mind work How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband! Charles Lamb husband cheer children The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured. Charles Lamb apollo silence dumb If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there! Charles Lamb bed sick solitude I ask and wish not to appear Charles Lamb gay prayer years O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend! Charles Lamb pockets liberty money It is good to have friends at court. Charles Lamb court friends Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded. Charles Lamb god-knows merit littles Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission? Charles Lamb excited acting bears A flow'ret crushed in the bud, Charles Lamb coffins dying lying The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer. Charles Lamb kings law boys We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies. Charles Lamb rays vision tragedy When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think. Charles Lamb reading walking thinking By myself walking, To myself talking. Charles Lamb walking talking I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, these spiritual repasts-a grace before Milton-a grace before Shakespeare-a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading The Fairie Queene? Charles Lamb reading spiritual book You look wise, pray correct that error. Charles Lamb errors wise looks English physicians kill you, the French let you die. Charles Lamb physicians dies Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge. Charles Lamb simplicity
