"Naught so sweet as melancholy."

-- Robert A. Burton

#Sweet Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Misery Quotes

“The most noble title any child can have is Third.”
“One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.”
“Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.”
“I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.”
“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”
“Nothing is more short-lived than pride.”

Source : Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered”, p.118
“One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness”
“You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience.”

Source : "Carolyn Hax Live: Ignorant of fry equity". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 08, 2016.

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