Men Quotes - Page 905

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.

Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.

We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know.

Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may be witnessing," Fukuyama argued, "the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." The future will be devoted not to great exhilarating struggles over ideas but rather to resolving mundane economic and technical problems. And, he concluded rather sadly, it will all be rather boring.

The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with other countries.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.

How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such vanities, flying to the Saviour's Cross, and clasping His Crown of thorns to your heart, so that these little foxes may not spoil your vines. Beware of entering into any manner of treaty with the Enemy; do not delude yourself by listening to him while intending to reject him.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which gods you honor, and I will tell you who you are. Man not only creates culture, he carries it around with him. Man is culture.

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.