It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
Luigi Pirandello
Related The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a youn... ERIC HOFFER When you’re thirty you’re old enough to know better, but still young enough to go ahead and do i... BRIGITTE BARDOT Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the ... LYNN JOHNSTON Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. HEINRICH HEINE Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action. CRAIG GROESCHEL Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person. JEFFREY FRY I'm old enough to know better, but young enough to do it anyway. ANONYMOUS It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery... WILLIAM GLASSER A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. SAMUEL JOHNSON Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and mis... BLAISE PASCAL I was once asked, "How old are you"
My response was "Old enough to know, and young enough to not car... LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS The man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that wit... ANDREW HAMILTON I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands. CARSON MCCULLERS To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th... PETER MARSHALL Old enough to know its wrong, Young enough to do it anyway! ANTONIA VEGA Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a miser... C.S. LEWIS Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask fo... ZIAD K. ABDELNOUR Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not onl... EPICURUS We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as th... R.C. SPROUL Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who
inquires what is said of him only works... SIR WALTER SCOTT Not enough attention is paid to children who are too old to ride in booster seats but too young to d... JOSEPH O'DONNELL In Whom is the Universe, Who is in the Universe, Who is the Universe; in Whom is the Soul, Who is in... KUNAL NARAYAN UNIYAL Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead o... TOM PETERS Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't... NICOLE CHRISTIE If misery loves company, misery has company enough. HENRY DAVID THOREAU To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid..... RAYMOND CHANDLER Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. ... REBECCA HARDING DAVIS I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. BILLY ZANE Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it. CHARLES PLATT To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR The road of life is strewn with the bodies of promising people. People who show promise, yet lack th... IYANLA VANZANT I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN One single visit is not enough to be able to say that you know Mexico. ENRIQUE PENA NIETO It's beyond the pale. It's bad enough for the women and girls who go through it, but for the people ... DENISE COCCIOLONE Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD If...you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of i... CHARLES H. SPURGEON I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the p... AL GORE The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are ... BERTOLT BRECHT Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,
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MARIANA FULGER Wars are made by those who are old enough to know better, and fought by those who are not. RAIN BOJANGLES Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. MATTHEW ARNOLD Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. MATTHEW ARNOLD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Godly womanhood ... the very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about ... PETER MARSHALL 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. GORDON PARKS A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to di... SOURCE UNKNOWN Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for... GEORGE BANCROFT Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for ... GEORGE BANCROFT Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to ... PSYCHE ROXAS-MENDOZA Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be ... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH We had enough defensemen but not enough forwards and she seemed to be somebody who could make the mo... KRISTIN STEELE I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and sw... PATTIE MAES He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or ... BERTOLT BRECHT Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. ALEXANDER POPE Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent t... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his ... MENCIUS (MENGZI MENG-TSE) All who wish to go will be transported, large and small, young and old. Don't be afraid, just take i... RATKO MLADIC A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be. STEVEN BRUST God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but wi... C.S. LEWIS God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but wi... C.S. LEWIS If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone. ERNIE PYLE If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone ERNIE PYLE Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappin... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Misery is easy to find when we look for it….jh JIMBO HENDERSON Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po... LISA KLEYPAS Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he m... JOSH BILLINGS When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also OSCAR WILDE If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can b... SUSAN B. ANTHONY I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia'... CARLOS MESA We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or wit... J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look... ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w... ANTHONY LICCIONE A wireless operator without enough spectrum is like a body without enough blood. If you don't have e... ALI TABASSI You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold. MATTHEW ARNOLD Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent t... RALPH WALDO EMERSON A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. JANE PAULEY But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle f... PETER KROPOTKIN The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve... PEARL BUCK The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve ... PEARL S. BUCK You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you c... ZSA ZSA GABOR Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. VICTOR HUGO To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD
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