Top 27 William John Locke Quotes
#1. Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.
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#2. Every man's first declaration of love is bathos
the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.
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#3. Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.
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#5. The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.
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#6. The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.
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#9. No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.
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#11. Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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.
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#17. Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.
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#18. I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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.
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#21. I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.
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#22. Children are the root of all evil ... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.
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#23. Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?
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#25. What is a logical mind? ... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.
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#26. 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.
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#27. As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.
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