Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BCMost vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841