"Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs."

Unknown, Source on idleness   

"'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes."

Cervantes, Miguel De on misers and misery   

"To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal."

Unknown, Source on comfort   

"Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness."

Lowell, Amy on moon   

"Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins."

Proverb, Native American on judgment and judges
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"I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another."

Vanbrugh, Sir John on adultery   

"You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct."

Maugham, W. Somerset on adultery
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"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."

Lynn, Loretta on adultery
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"In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you."

Holiday, Billie on addiction
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"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."

Cocteau, Jean on addiction
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"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts."

Chisholm, Shirley Anita on addiction
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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before."

Unknown, Source on abuse
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"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

Baldwin, James on abuse
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"Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment."

Whipple, Edwin P. on irony
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"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself."

West, Jessamyn on irony   

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."

Repplier, Agnes on irony   

"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom."

France, Anatole on irony   

"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others."

Aesop on misfortunes
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"Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away."

Craik, Dinah Mulock on friends and friendship
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"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable."

Dunne, Finley Peter on motivation
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"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on complacency
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"The Moon is opposing Jupiter. Don't get involved, it's their problem."

Critchfield, Jim on problems   

"Stupidity is without anxiety."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on stupidity
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"We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often."

Churchill, Winston on anxiety
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"Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship   

"There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it."

Ovid on anxiety   

"We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other."

Freud, Sigmund on suffering
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"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on isolation
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"Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."

Carr, Emily on isolation
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"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."

Capote, Truman on friends and friendship
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"I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games."

Hogan, Ben on competition   

"The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety."

Mueller, George E. on faith
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"Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc."

Miller, Henry on civilization
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"I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat."

Artaud, Antonin on psychiatry
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on insanity
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"A temporary insanity curable by marriage."

Bierce, Ambrose on love
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"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense."

Landesberg, Steve on honesty
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