Men Quotes - Page 535

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.

Tell people an invisible man in the sky created all things, they believe you. Tell them what you've painted is wet, they have to touch it to believe.

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.

Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.

Lack of love from parents often motivates their children to go searching for love in other relationships. This search is often misguided and leads to further disappointment.

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

I do not believe there are any new objections to be discovered to the truth of Christianity. Men may argue ingeniously against our faith, but what can they say in defense of their own?

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.

It was you that chose your due, You built a maze you can't get through. I tried to help you all I can, Now I can't do nuttin' for you, man!

Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.