Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Quote by Robertson Davies

Topics: Foolishness Quotes, Happiness Quotes

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors...

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors...

The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power...

The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power...

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible)...

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible)...

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power...

The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power...

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we...

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we...

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of...

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of...

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also...

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also...

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut...

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut...

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody...

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the...

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the...

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with...

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with...

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of...

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of...