Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness.… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not… — James Howell Copy Share Image
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the… — Ed McClanahan Copy Share Image
Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion. — Elizabeth Inchbald Copy Share Image
If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was… — Frederic William Maitland Copy Share Image
Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and… — Graham Kerr Copy Share Image
Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good… — James Howell Copy Share Image
Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I hope I pass on my dad's good humor, work ethic and lack of self-seriousness. Our house was always a fun place… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
