"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time." ― George Orwell Topic(s): Good Tags: beings, human, whole More From George Orwell "Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness." "Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion." "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." More In Good "What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before."― Mark Twain "Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it."― Henry Ward Beecher "I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."― Edna St. Vincent Millay