melancholy quotes

• Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy. (Robert Burton) [men/melancholy/music/melancholy]
• Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. ( Aristotle) [men/nature/melancholy]
• Melancholy men are of all others the most witty. ( Aristotle) [melancholy/men]
• It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. (Charles Dickens) [melancholy/truth/men/relations]
• The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. (Oliver Goldsmith) [company/smile/melancholy]
• When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? (Oliver Goldsmith) [men/melancholy/art/guilt]
• Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. (Samuel Johnson) [melancholy]
• It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. (Samuel Johnson) [strange/melancholy/human]
• The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. (Charles Lamb) [recipe/melancholy]
• Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits. (Susan Sontag) [depression/melancholy/minus]
• In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth. (Jonathan Swift) [school/melancholy/people/wisdom]
• A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. (Maurice Chevalier) [age/youth/melancholy/give]

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