Quotes of Jeremy Bentham

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The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.

- Jeremy Bentham

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“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ If you sow kindness, you will reap love. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. ”

- Melissa Marr

“ If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ Where wild souls meet wild lovers is where hurricanes are made. ”

- ventum

“ Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I’m gay: well, the fact that I’m flamboyantly gay. ”

- Ross Mathews

“ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ My love for you does not recognize boundaries, distances, borders, or timezones! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

“ Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family. ”

- Ali Ibn Abi Talib A.S

“ It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can. ”

- Nicholas Sparks

“ Those who complain about being constrained in their job and life should ask themselves one simple question. Are you constrained by chains or in your own mind? ”

- RJ Intindola

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ”

- Cynthia Hand