William John Locke Quotes
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.
I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.
Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.
Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.
In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.
I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.
The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.
The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.
Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.
Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.
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 all the crapulous years.
Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?
No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.
Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.
I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?
