Adults Quote by Tom Hodgkinson

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

— John Dryden

A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in…

— Anonymous

It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

— Samuel Butler

“No man need fear that by making himself rational he will make his life dull. On the contrary, since rationality consists in the main…

— Bertrand Russell

A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in…

— Anuj Somany

“What is it that a young man wants? Where is the central source of that wild fury that boils up in him, that goads…

— Thomas Wolfe

“He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen, has the…

— Joseph Conrad

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of…

— Black Elk

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

— Theodore Roosevelt