Lucretius Quote

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

Lucretius

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Mark Twain

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Homer

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

• Hope

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Happiness

Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.

Hermann von Helmholtz

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Herman Melville

• Man

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Victor Hugo

• Man
• Art
• Artist

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Franz Schubert

• Joy

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Man

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

Jeremy Irons

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Umberto Eco

• Man
• Fear
• Courage

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

• Man

Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

David Letterman

• Travel

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

Ursula Andress

• Joy

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Mark Twain

• Joy

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Aeschylus

• Freedom
• Destiny

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

Laura Dern