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Looks may capture the eyes but it’s the personality that captures the heart
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Lots of people have asked me what Gracie and I did to make our marriage work. It’s simple – we don’t do anything. I think the trouble with a lot of people is that they work too hard at staying married. They make a business out of it. When you work too hard at a business you get tired; and when you get tired you get grouchy; and when you get grouchy you start fighting; and when you start fighting you’re out of business.
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Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn’t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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Man iz affectionate of counting hiz troublez, bt he does not count hiz joyz. If he counted them up az he ought 2, he would see dat every momeny he haz enough happiness.
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Man thinks Brutes have no wisdom, since they know not his: Can we divine their world?
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Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
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Man’s chief wisdom consists in being sensible of his follies.
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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.
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Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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May I take the ridiculous position of saying that I do not like the was [Andre] Gide exalts the body. He asks it to restrain its desire to make it keener. Thus he comes dangersouly near to those who in brothel slang are called involved or brain-workers. Christianity also wants to suspend desire. But, more natural, it sees a mortification in this. My friend Vincent, who is a cooper and junior breast-stroke champion, has an even clear veiw. He drinks when he is thirsty, if he desires a woman he tries to go to bed with her, and would marry her if he loved her (this hasn’t yet happened). Afterward he says: ‘I feel better’– and this sums up vigorously any apology that might be made for satiety.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
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Men of ill judgement oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
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Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.
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Most battles are won before they are ever fought.
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Most poorest man on earth iz not that man wid out money, but the man wid out a dream
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Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.
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