Famous Quotes | Certainly it was ordained as a...
Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.
- Laurence Sterne
Attribution: Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), British author, clergyman. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1762), vol. 5, ch. 16, eds. Melvyn New and Joan New, University of Florida Press (1978).
Categories: Ambition, Author, Clergyman, Excess, Pride
