Sir William Temple Quotes & Quotations

Sir William Temple Quotes

» The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

» The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

» Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed

» Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

» The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

» There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

» The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

» Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

» Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

» When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

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