Quotes about men
men self satisfaction
Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction. Arthur Conan Doyle
men thinking good-man
I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
men green-fields may
Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.
men evil worry
'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness and finish. 'It's as if the morbid condition was an evil creature which, when it found itself closely hunted, flew at the throat of its pursuer. If you worry the microbes too much they may worry you. I've seen cases of it, and not necessarily in microbic diseases either. There was, of course, the well-known instance of Liston and the aneurism; and a dozen others that I could mention.'
men thinking darkness
When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.
men hands special
Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
men europe mind
...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" Asked Holmes, with some asperity. "To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly." "Then had you not better consult him?" "I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently--" "Just a little," said Holmes.
men trying half
Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them. Arthur Bryant
men littles way
While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to utilize your odd moments...the man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. Arthur Brisbane
men race space
Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed and the earth tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for the moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest. Arthur Balfour
men heaven age
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.
men promise young
I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
men evil good-man
There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded. Arthur C. Clarke
men synthesis machines
Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?
men hair critics
A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
men alive ratios
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
men bombs ticking-time
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
men sea space
To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man. We must contemplate the moment, now irrevocably lost in the mists of time, when the ancestor off all of us came crawling out of the sea.
men religion atheism
If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
men panic enough
But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
men sea soul
It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop
men space safety
The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it.
men lasts said
Now I understand,” said the last man.
men degrees firsts
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one. Anton Chekhov
men silence unhappy
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
men thinking maturity
Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
men civilization privacy
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.
men air-balloons years
After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.
men ideas done
Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.
men want culinary
A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.
men doors hammers
There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.
men opinion drink
A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.
men one-day alive
Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.