"The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Men Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Good Humor Quotes

“The days that make us happy make us wise”

Source : John Masefield, Peter Vansittart (1984). “John Masefield's letters from the front, 1915-1917”, Constable & Company Limited
“...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe. Now, this is basically incompatible with virtually all the religious or metaphysical systems whatever, all of which try to show that there is some sort of harmony between man and the universe and that man is a product-predictable if not indispensable-of the evolution of the universe.”
“We're all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We're all peering in at the window of a party we aren't invited to yet, a party we wouldn't know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone's guest.”
“It's so much easier to do good than to be good.”
“No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo”
“When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.”
“But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.”
“I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass”

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