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Zitat des Tages von Charles Lamb:

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

Charles Lamb

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

Charles Lamb

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Charles Lamb

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

Charles Lamb

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

Charles Lamb

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

Charles Lamb

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Charles Lamb

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Charles Lamb

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

Charles Lamb

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

Charles Lamb

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Charles Lamb

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

Charles Lamb

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Charles Lamb

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Charles Lamb

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

Charles Lamb

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Charles Lamb

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Charles Lamb

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

Charles Lamb

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

Charles Lamb

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

Charles Lamb

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

Charles Lamb

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Charles Lamb

I could never hate anyone I knew.

Charles Lamb

It is good to love the unknown.

Charles Lamb

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Charles Lamb

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

Charles Lamb

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Charles Lamb

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Charles Lamb

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

Charles Lamb

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

Charles Lamb

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

Charles Lamb

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

Charles Lamb

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

Charles Lamb

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

Charles Lamb

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Charles Lamb

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

Charles Lamb