Search Quotes
Search more than 36,000 Quotes by over 6,000 Authors.
Home Page
Quotes by Author
Quotes by Topic
Popular Quotes
Popular Authors
Submit a Quote
Perverseness Quotes
Showing: 1 - 10 Perverseness Quotes of 10
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.
The good that I would do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.
We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
Look round the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.
Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.
The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.
Browse Page(s):
Search quotes
Friendship Quote
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Wisdom Quote
Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Funny Quote
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
Happiness Quote
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Inspirational Quote
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
All quotations on this website are the property and copyright of their respective authors. All quotations are provided for educational and informational purposes only.
Copyright © 2011 LifeQuotesLib.com. All Rights Reserved.