Men Quotes - Page 1077

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

I am the man, I suffered, I was there.

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.

Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.

Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.

A goal without a method is nonsense.

Let us cultivate our garden.

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

Men argue. Nature acts.

I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

What a reason the Company has for observing its Rules faithfully: to do what the Son of God came into the world to do! That there should be a Company, and that it should be the Company of the Mission, composed of poor men, and that it should be entirely dedicated to that purpose, going here and there through hamlets and villages, leaving the towns behind-something that's never been done-and going to announce the Gospel only to persons who are poor; yet, those are our Rules!

In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.