"What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better."

-- Maxim Gorky

#Men Quotes #Hats Quotes #Saying Thank You Quotes

“Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.”

Source : Isobelle Carmody (2011). “Obernewtyn: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book One”, p.75, A&C Black
“Hope is to a man as a bladder to a learning swimmer--it keeps him from sinking in the bosom of the waves, and by that help he may attain the exercise; but yet it many times makes him venture beyond his height, and then if that breaks, or a storm rises, he drowns without recovery. How many would die, did not hope sustain them! How many have died by hoping too much! This wonder we find in Hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend.”
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own...”
“I'm used to working with restrictions and that's when you come up with the more creative stuff.”
“Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.”

Source : Roger Kimball (2002). “Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse”, Ivan R Dee
“Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.”
“No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.”
“The mind can also be an erogenous zone.”

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