I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future even twenty years in the future is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future just like there is now.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

If my films make one more person miserable I'll feel I have done my job.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

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.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration and all the fair examples of renown out of distress and misery are grown.

Famous adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

In my family in the days prior to television we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.