A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
- Charles Lamb Quote

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 Quote

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
- Charles Lamb Quote

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

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
- Charles Lamb Quote

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
- Charles Lamb Quote

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

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 Quote

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
- Charles Lamb Quote

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
- Charles Lamb Quote

It is good to love the unknown.
- Charles Lamb Quote

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
- Charles Lamb Quote

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
- Charles Lamb Quote

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
- Charles Lamb Quote

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
- Charles Lamb Quote

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
- Charles Lamb Quote

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
- Charles Lamb Quote

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
- Charles Lamb Quote

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
- Charles Lamb Quote

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
- Charles Lamb Quote

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 Quote

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
- Charles Lamb Quote

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
- Charles Lamb Quote

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 Quote

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

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
- Charles Lamb Quote

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

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
- Charles Lamb Quote

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 Quote