“Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it away.”– Sophocles Related Quotes “An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”– Thomas Jefferson “There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”– William Shakespeare “Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”– George Orwell