Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“MAN'S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
American society has tried so hard and so ably to defend the practice and theory of production for profit and not primarily… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The decline of practical skills, some of them very day-to-day, among a generation of British men is very worrying. They can't put… — James May Copy Share Image
I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then… — Ingrid Law Copy Share Image
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
