Quotes
Quotes about Man
Tom Delay did bugs exterminate before he did kid soldiers terminate. Kissinger's Bremer has not been forthright about how many died in the last fortnight.
Alec Issignois said a camel was a horse made by a committee.. but a camel is an animal created by God to adapt to deserts made by treekilling human beings The animal made by human commitee had pickled pigs' feet .. the pigs now had no feet .. frog's legs ...the frogs now had no legs chicken's thighs... the chickens now had no thighs lamb's ribs .. the lamb now had no ribs turkey's breasts.. the turkey's chest was carved sheep's eyes which watched the devourers calf brains which contained Mad Cow and God sent angels to wipe all violence from the earth from this day forth © S N Shriver.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15]
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.
Abundance, like want, ruins many.
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.
The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightstick like a posthole digger. (in reference to the death by ruptured kidney and other factors after the clubbing of Nathaniel Jones by 2 Cincinnati policemen).
The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done nothing to deserve it. in the book THE JUNGLE.
I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.
I haven't touched my brother in almost 18 years. (in reference to cruel prison regulations in Mansfield Ohio prison) http://www.kennyisinnocent.org http://www.petitiononline.com/manci.
Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.
By many a happy accident.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.
Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.
