Quotes
Quotes about Man
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest ;man and to the gentleman.
The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail for many decades.
Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his ;fine home, says: "No man should have so much." The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: "All men should have as much.".
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
A Parenting Manual -Doc Childre.
Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.
A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. [Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.]
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly ;for one.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.
