Kind Quotes - Page 78
Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.
Marie Corelli (2015). “The Sorrows of Satan”, p.123, Booklassic
Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.369, Inkling Books
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1750). “Thoughts of Cicero: On the Following Subjects, Viz. I. Religion. II. Man. III. Conscience. IV. The Passions. V. Wisdom. VI. Probity. VII. Eloquence. VIII. Friendship. IX. Old Age. X. Death. XI. Scipio's Dream. XII. Miscellaneous Thoughts”, p.213
Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.100, New York Review of Books
All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.
John Wesley (1825). “Sermons on several occasions [ed. by T. Jackson].”, p.379
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 46), 1895.
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Claude Cernuschi, Jackson Pollock (1992). “Jackson Pollock: Meaning and Significance”, HarperCollins
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.
Hugh Black (1901). “Culture and Restraint”