It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.


William Lamb Melbourne

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I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you... happily-ma...
WALLY LAMB
The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire witho...
BRIAN LAMB
We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewer...
BRIAN LAMB
It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.
BRIAN LAMB
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
WALLY LAMB
Gone before / To that unknown and silent shore.
CHARLES LAMB
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he i...
CHARLES LAMB
When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street....
WALLY LAMB
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All...
CHARLES LAMB
This is a crime like I've never seen, one of infinite cruelty. They (the children) were infinitely h...
DAVID LAMB
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever
CHARLES LAMB
What is reading, but silent conversation.
CHARLES LAMB
I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as an...
CHARLES LAMB
We have a deeper team than we had last year. We have quality in all areas with more athletes (100) o...
CORTNEY LAMB
It [a pun] is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
CHARLES LAMB
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
CHARLES LAMB
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more
CHARLES LAMB
Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creato...
CHARLES LAMB
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it
CHARLES LAMB
It's the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins in...
WALLY LAMB
Books are like ice cream; there is a flavor for everyone!
K. LAMB
I think that her success came in large part because she understood volleyball quickly. She's got it ...
CHRIS LAMB
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dyi...
CHARLES LAMB
Truths, which transcend the searching School-men's vein, / And half had staggered that stout Stagiri...
CHARLES LAMB
Riddle of destiny, who can show / What thy short visit meant, or know / What thy errand here below?
CHARLES LAMB
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less
CHARLES LAMB
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport
CHARLES LAMB
I feel particularly sad about the families,
CHARLES LAMB
I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
CHARLES LAMB
Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing
CHARLES LAMB
I hate a man who swallows it [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his tast...
CHARLES LAMB
There is a pleasure in affecting affectation
CHARLES LAMB
I came home . . . hungry as a hunter.
CHARLES LAMB
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it
CHARLES LAMB
His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.
CHARLES LAMB