Logo
Quote by Laurence Sterne
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone,

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. – Laurence Sterne

Other quotes by Laurence Sterne

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. – Laurence Sterne

Category:
Religion
Author
Laurence Sterne
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
alone
category

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010. – Jeff Goodell

Category:
alone

My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. Its just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember shes the daughter of alcoholics whod leave her alone at Christmas time. – Jim Carrey

Category:
alone

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. – William Westmoreland

Category:
alone

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Category:
alone

Random Quotes

We live in a funny time. If you dont go corporate, you cant compete. Youre relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that. – Ethan Hawke

Category:
funny

Ive always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house. – Dakota Fanning

Category:
mom

Astrology is one of the earliest attempts made by man to find the order hidden behind or within the confusing and apparent chaos that exists in the world. – Karen Hamaker-Zondag

Category:
Astrology

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. – Marlene Dietrich

Category:
Forgiveness