Sydney Smith Men Quotations

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

An ounce of wit is worth a pound of argument

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.