#miser

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. ↗

— Don Marquis

#hands #happiness #himself #how #into

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. ↗

— Philip Massinger

#doubt #fall #lost #miseries #must

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#cruel #folly #man #misery #nations

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know? ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#being #doing #find #free #fun

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#common-sense #enact #even #failed #gun

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years. ↗

— Paul Merton

#endured #give #happiest #i #indication

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#better #chance #creature #exertions #fight

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#being #better #chance #creature #exertions

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#for the people #great #hunger #misery #people

It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger. ↗

— Evo Morales

#continue #destruction #earth #easy #families