All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Noah Webster

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
William Samuel Johnson

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Jane Birkin

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
Swami Vivekananda

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
Victoria Abril

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
Benazir Bhutto

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
Rudyard Kipling

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Colin Wilson

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles