Quotes
Quotes about Man
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love--and to put its trust in life.
When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.
Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. Robert Kennedy The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. -Doc Childre.
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.
Many have screwed the truth, but few have called her the next day.
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. -Spinoza.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.
Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
[The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
We have on out hands a sick man,--a very sick man. [The sick man of Europe, the Turk.]
[The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end was near.
Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker.
The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.
Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste, And in a cruel wantonness of power, Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up To want the rest.
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.
His demand Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love, Bur from deceit, bred by necessity; For how can tyrants safely govern home Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?
