Men Quotes - Page 880

There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

The man who fears losing has already lost.

You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have got the authority of the Priesthood; but if we are not honest, it does not amount to anything; for neither God nor honorable men love dishonesty. We must, therefore, be an honest people.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.

Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

The main reason women are crazy, is that men are stupid.

Tennis is a young man's game. Until you're 25, you can play singles. From 25 to 35, you should play doubles. I won't tell you exactly how old I am, but when I played, there were 28 men on the court - just on my side of the net.

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

All men have opinions, but few think.

All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictment of our society of we assume that one half of our population is just not interested in the other half.

Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabba, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat.

I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

Attachment is the source of all suffering.

Yes, I'm a nice man and I enjoy babies. I'm a sensitive guy. I held a baby the other day and it was the first time either of us cried.

Fulfillment has nothing to do with circumstances.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most austere and the most remote, and a mathematician should be of all men the one who can most easily take refuge where, as Bertrand Russell says, "one at least of our nobler impulses can best escape from the dreary exile of the actual world."

The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.