Quotes about men
men swooning female
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions. Barbara Mertz
men thinking credit
I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)
men asking-for-help giving
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
men generations might
Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate. Augusto Roa Bastos
men squad justice
The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.
men humanity decadence
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.
men doctrine aliens
There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector Augustine Birrell
men law dictator
I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over. Augusto Pinochet
men
I am a man of my word. Augustus
men good-man citizens
To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.
men aging young
Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men evil neighbor
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
men evil neighbor
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
men thinking principles
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
men religion circumstances
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
men doe impunity
Nobody does good to men with impunity. Auguste Rodin
men color drawing
The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
men artist be-a-man
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!
men differences people
The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards. Augusten Burroughs
men rights skin-color
Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage. Arthur Mitchell
men wish saint
It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand why it is so rare. There are few, indeed, who wish to penetrate into other spheres, higher or lower, in ways allowed or forbidden. Men, in the mass, are amply content with life as they find it. Therefore there are few saints, and sinners (in the proper sense) are fewer still. Arthur Machen
men two heaven
We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?
men office facts
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
men destiny brave
Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
men years pulse
History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations Arthur Koestler
men thinking ideas
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort of homely routine.That is ,by the way, why most prison memoirs are unreadable.The difficulty of conveying to the reader an idea of a nightmare world from which he has emerged makes the author depict the prisoner's state of mind as an uninterruped continuity of despair.He fears to appear frivolous or to spoil his effect by admitting that even in the depths of misery cheerfulness keeps breaking in.
men shadow dying
Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.
men order evil
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.
men sight imagination
man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.
men missing society
The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.
men brain doe
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.
men self church
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.