God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.
In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison.
A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.