Emotions and Feelings

our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

Fear and dull disposition, lukewarmness and sloth, are not seldom wont to cloak themselves under the affected name of moderation.

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

Marriage is a great institution—but I’m not ready for an institution.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal.

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is just too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

Love must be as much a light as a flame.