Quotes
Quotes about Man
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?
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.
And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
And Adam said, This is the bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife, Who has no will but by her high permission; Who has not sixpence but in her possession; Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell; Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell. Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart.
There was no great disparity of years, Though much in temper; but they never clash'd, They moved like stars united in their spheres, Or like the Rhone by Leman's waters wash'd, Where mingled and yet separate appears The river from the lake, all bluely dash'd Through the serene and placid glassy deep, Which fain would lull its river-child to sleep.
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. [Sp., Una muger no tiene. Valor para el consejo, y la conviene Casarse.]
I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.
By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.
Use three Physicians, Still-first Dr. Quiet, Next Dr. Merry-man And Dr. Dyet.
A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
"Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.
