Knees Quote by David Hume

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

— Aristotle

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

— Thomas Hobbes

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

— Aristotle

The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy…

— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

— Charles Dickens

There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.

— Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken…

— Emile Durkheim

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain…

— Richard Steele

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

— Joseph Addison

Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which…

— John Ruskin