Men Quotes - Page 473

He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.

Managing by results only makes things worse.

What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to make the same judgment in the case of humans who are similarly deficient.

Just like girls need to learn to be comfortable in heels before they go out in them for the first time, a man should try wearing a suit throughout a normal day. I do most things in a suit-and sometimes even in a tuxedo-and so I'm really comfortable in one.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Thousands of men breathe, move, and live; pass off the stage of life and are heard of no more. Why? They did not a particle of good in the world; and none were blest by them, none could point to them as the instrument of their redemption; not a line they wrote, not a word they spoke, could be recalled, and so they perished--their light went out in darkness, and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die, O man immortal? Live for something.

No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

All middle men are bad.

The death of contentment is comparison.