Laurence Sterne Quotes

las leyes humanas no son el resultado de una elección libre original, sino el de la pura necesidad de poner límites a los perjudiciales efectos de aquellas conciencias que no constituyen ley para sí mismas; y están ideadas con el buen propósito de que, merced a las numerosas cauciones estipuladas de antemano, — en aquellos casos de corrupción y de extravío en los que ni los principios ni el freno de la conciencia lograrán enderezarnos, — suplan la fuerza de éstos y, mediante los horrores de la cárcel y la soga, nos obliguen a seguir por el camino recto’.

Delicious essence! how refreshing art thou to Nature! how strongly are all its powers and all its weaknesses on thy side! how sweetly dost thou mix with the blood, and help it through the most difficult and tortuous passages to the heart!

Every man speaks of the fair as his own market has gone in it.

o si existiera la certeza de que el amor propio jamás puede ejercer la menor influencia sobre el juicio;

A man cannot dress but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time, and if he dresses like a gentleman, every one of them stands presented to his imagination.

De câte ori cineva vorbeşte cu tărie împotriva religiei poate fi suspectat că nu o face din raţiune, ci dintr-o pasiune din care şi-a făcut un crez.

Sözcükleri telaffuz ettiğim anda, kalp bölgesinin civarındaki telleri titreştiren bir çaba hissedebiliyordum.-Beyin bunu kaydetmedi.-Zaten genellikle bu ikisi birbiriyle pek anlaşamaz.

I am pursuaded of it, madam, as much as can be, That both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.

sucios subterfugios maquinados en la mezquindad para anular el verdadero espíritu de todas las leyes,

— What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see, what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on. —

soy un mortal de tan poca consecuencia para el mundo que lo que yo haga no tiene mucha importancia;

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The more my uncle Toby pored over his map, the more he took a liking to it! — by the same process and electrical assimilation, as I told you, through which I ween the souls of connoisseurs themselves, by long friction and incumbition, have the happiness, at length, to get all be-virtu’d — be-pictured, — be-butterflied, and be-fiddled.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing;

my uncle Toby had certainly been overthrown: the sentence and the argument in that case jumping closely in one point, so like the two lines which form the salient angle of a ravelin, — Dr. Slop would never have given them up; — and my uncle Toby would as soon have thought of flying, as taking them by force: but Dr. Slop fumbled so vilely in pulling them out, it took off the whole effect, and what was a ten times worse evil (for they seldom come alone in this life) in pulling out his forceps, his forceps unfortunately drew out the squirt along with it. When a proposition can be taken in two senses — ’tis a law in disputation, That the respondent may reply to which of the two he pleases, or finds most convenient for him. — This threw the advantage of the argument quite on my uncle Toby’s side. — ‘Good God!’ cried my uncle Toby, ‘are children brought into the world with a squirt?

La seriedad es un continente misterioso del cuerpo que sirve para ocultar los defectos de la mente