Hope Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It…

— Kurt Vonnegut

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…

— Thomas Paine

Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word…

— Homer

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

— Anonymous

“Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

— Wendell Phillips

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

— George Santayana

“Strange, is it not, how even those of us who scoff at divine intervention will fall to our knees and clasp our hands the…

— Andrew Levkoff

“The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.”

— Henry David Thoreau

But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.

— Charles Spurgeon

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look…

— Anonymous

Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole…

— Kurt Vonnegut