#hum

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#humor #life #pleasure #death

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#best #borrow #composed #distinct #form

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#behavior #caught #early #first #hardship

I wanted to do different movies. I wanted to do deeper movies. More human movies based on human feelings. ↗

— Christopher Lambert

#deeper #different #feelings #human #i

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#being #being prepared #critical #does #done

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#advancing #beings #constitute #crest #front

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blood #children #earth #egyptians #expecting

Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#been #democracy #democratically #elected #era

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. ↗

— Ann Landers

#bad #bad times #caught #confidence #fire

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#everything #future #human #human nature #looks