Famous quotes containing the words tristram shandy, life, opinions and/or tristram:
“Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannnot endure it.... Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)
“Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)