Men Quotes - Page 877

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.

Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely - legend, Mr Wayne.

A Polish man had a bandage on each ear. What happened? "I was ironing, and the phone rang!" "What about the other ear?" "Had to call the doctor!"

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.

Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.