Quotes about men
men fool sometimes
Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools. Charlaine Harris
men leisure common
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair. Charles Baudelaire
men mirrors he-man
Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.
men vulgar dandy
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man
men taste vices
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
men important saint
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
men confusing speech
Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.
men narcissus metals
Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.
men hideous idleness
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
men might taste
The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.
men giving surprise
There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
men water secret
A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.
men like-family baudelaire
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
men literature
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
men hands honor
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
men flames evil
A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark. Chaim Potok
men given blink-of-an-eye
A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.
men meaning-of-life given
The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.
men quality may
A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.
men two intuition
As scientists the two men were contrasting types—Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment ... There was no doubt that as an experimenter Rutherford was a genius, one of the greatest. He worked by intuition and everything he touched turned to gold. He had a sixth sense. Chaim Weizmann
men thinking practice
'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd. Charlie Munger
men car return
When you borrow a man's car, always return it with a tank of gas.
men nails hammers
To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
men fluency kicking
Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.
men ideas people
You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines, and use them routinely - all of them, not just a few. Most people are trained in one model - economics, for example - and try to solve all problems in one way. You know the old saying: to the man with a hammer, the world looks like a nail. This is a dumb way of handling problems.
men tools should
Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.
men brain income
It's natural that you'd have more brains going into money management. There are so many huge incomes in money management and investment banking - it's like ants to sugar. There are huge incentives for a man to take up money management as opposed to, say, physics, and it's a lot easier.
men soul holy-cross
Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul? Charles Simeon
men scripture saint
No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.
men thinking errors
Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others are held in an iron vice of metaphysical theory, because by theories that they have never called in question. Charles Sanders Peirce
men practice errors
Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian sense. In practice, and in fact, mathematics is not exempt from that liability to error that affects everything that man does.
men understanding-nature chance
Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.
men satisfied every-man
Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.