William John Locke Quotes

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.

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.

Men are men and women are women. We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've failed miserably.

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

Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.

The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.

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

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

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

If you love a Dream Woman ... let her stay the divine Woman of the Dream. To awaken and clasp flesh and blood, no matter how delicately tender, and find that love has sped at the dawn is a misery too deep for tears.

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.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

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

What is a logical mind? ... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

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

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

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.