Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest. William John Locke More Quotes by William John Locke More Quotes From William John Locke The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness. William John Locke Men are men and women are women. We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've failed miserably. William John Locke men sex years Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity. William John Locke serenity stars fire It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you. William John Locke depends behind-you behinds Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence. William John Locke passion love-is men You have never seen ugliness in a happy face. William John Locke happy-face ugliness faces Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer. William John Locke art-is long art Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance. William John Locke ninety-nine soul sex Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement? William John Locke advertisements anxious-thoughts human-nature