Men Quotes - Page 1062

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. In a position of wealth and honor, he does what is proper to a position of wealth and honor. In a poor and low position, he does what is proper to a poor and low position.

A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.

We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.

Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evaluation of the interrelationships among the components of the present-day society.

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven

Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and nucleophilic (nucleus-seeking) are suggested... and the organic molecule, in the activation necessary for reaction, is therefore required to develop at the seat of attack either a high or low electron density as the case may be.

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?

I think women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different and this is also shaped by the society in which they live.

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

There's no limit to what you can accomplish in the world of entertainment. It's all I've ever known since I was 19.