Laurence Sterne Mind Quotations

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are--else there would beno dealing with them.

When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes, till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind; is it a wonder, that the mechanical disturbancesof an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for [the] workings [of God].

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining; rumple the one, you rumple the other.