Quotes from William John Locke

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

She slept but little. In the morning she found habit by her bedside; she clothed herself therein and faced the day.

The wise man profits by the vanity of his fellow-creatures.

This is too busy a world for us to stop and wonder whether a man wants what he does not ask for. Too many are clamoring loudly for what we cannot give...

Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.