More From Sydney Smith
- "Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."
- "Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."
- "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
More In Science
- "It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on."― Michael Behe
- "That’s the show. it’s like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself."― Adam Savage
- "I was a Political Science major."― Harry Shearer