#miser

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#different #different ways #evaluate #hard #hard thing

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #forgetfulness #miseries #pleasure #present

I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#administration #back #been #bush #bush administration

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#care #enjoy #enough #health #hoarding

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#free #make #miserable #set #truth

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#got #joy #just #leak #make

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#because #bottom #bravery #courage #cowardice

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience. ↗

— Brian Moore

#company #demands #loves #misery #misery loves company

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#extreme #hopes #misery

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. ↗

— Jacopo Sannazaro

#himself #man #miserable #only #thinks