Sixty years is too brief a compass for man’s imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
Related Quotes:
- A sixty – eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won’t return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one. – Lisa Kleypas
- In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Lucifer wasn’t sure what to say. He’d survived six thousand years in Hell, but the past sixty without her were the most torturous of his existence. – JM Darhower
- everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure – Alexis de Tocqueville
- A whole nation cannot rise above itself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Egotism fears its own self. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends – Alexis de Tocqueville
- What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God’s justice. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Don’t run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy you. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason. – Thiruman Archunan
- I’m thirty-six years old, but I don’t feel like it. Some days I feel like I’m twenty-one, some days I feel like I’m pushing sixty. – Sarah Colonna
- Sweetheart, I’ll be a Marine -˜til they bury my cold, dead, decrepit ass in the ground a good fifty or sixty years from now. – Dee Tenorio
- The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis. – Christopher Moore
- In his imagination, he grabbed his dad by the throat and squeezed until an old mans face turned purple. No pleading, no begging, simply… nothing. – Stephen Craig
- We have created our own fake world in order to satisfy our imagination through the illusion. – Nilantha Ilangamuwa
- His life had made a complete three sixty, in one year. He had a family that he adored, a wife that he would die for and a whole new outlook on life. – Jordan Silver
- May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours. – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Years of love, followed by heartache. Those are the years that define me.Those are the years that know-“ love’s eternity is you. – C Elizabeth
- Breath deeply, this breath is your life.Enjoy the moment, this moment is your life.Love with your heart, let your heart be the compass of your life. – Debasish Mridha
- All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? – Haruki Murakami
- In the end, having no compass for his desires, he yielded to his nature. – KJ Bishop