Women Will Weep

“Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.”
--Socrates

Live on State's Expense

“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.”
--Frédéric Bastiat

Political Commendations

“A politician who commends himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to spend funds with other peoples’ money.”
--P. J. O’Rourke

Society and Government

“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.”
--Thomas Paine

More Dangerous

“There is nothing more dangerous than a person who wants to be left alone but is forced to get involved.”
--Jeffrey Fry

A Power Like This

“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”
--Alexander Graham Bell

Answers

“Everyone wants answers until they get one they don't like.”
--Unknown

Two Ways to Happiness

“There are two ways of being happy, we may either diminish our wants or augment our means, either will do, the result is the same.”
--Benjamin Franklin

Few Wants

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
--Epictetus

What It Takes

“Everyone want to be successful until they see what it really takes.”
--Unknown

What You Want To

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
--Bob Dylan

Top of the Mountain

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”
--Andy Rooney

Judge Humans

“Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.”
--Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Money is Not Happiness

“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one.”
--Benjamin Franklin

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Fatherhood

“A father should be the man he wants his child to become, not force his child to be the man he never was.”
--Aaron Manley Smith

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Want Least

“He is richest who wants least.”
--Jeffrey Fry