"Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man."

-- Charles Simmons

#Men Quotes #Joy Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“I'm just enjoying the ride. I'm just contributing what I can.”
“When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes and they'll be going around in circles.”
“If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground.”

Source : Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.147
“It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.227, Open Road Media
“I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.”
“Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.”
“A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.”
“I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.”

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