Men Quotes - Page 896

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

Art is basically entertainment.

Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge.

For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not - but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes - bad, if he always stays in the same place.

Now there is music from which a man can learn something.

I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die.

Nashville, man. That's the place to be.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

A young man married is a man that's marred.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.

Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.