William John Locke Quotes

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• I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
• Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?
• I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never…
• Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.
• Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.
• The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.
• Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.
• What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.
• Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.
• Women are women and can't help themselves.
• As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of…
• To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.
• No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.
• Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.
• Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.
• It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see…
• Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.
• I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?
• The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.
• If you love a Dream Woman ... let her stay the divine Woman of the Dream. To awaken and clasp flesh and blood, no matter…

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