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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about drinking

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

Quote by Italo Calvino about melancholia, sadness

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Quote by Charles Dickens about truth, man

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Quote by Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon about friendship, soul

I am traumatized by joy As I drink a glass of melancholy, Served cold.

Quote by Johnny Hampton about joy, drinking

The discrete calligraphy of disease, on body's parchment, touched vaguely by softnesses of melancholy. Dissertation on body, 2010 RightWords Translation

Quote by Iulian Boldea about body

Mihai Eminescu is the absolute melancholy of Romanian people, in universal tender expansion.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about aphorisms, absolute, people

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.

Quote by Maurice Chevalier about olderness, youth, reward, age, old, world