Quotes
Quotes about Men
A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. About 3 weeks later he gets a bill from the police department and a photo of his truck running that light. So, like the smart/dumbass he is, he gets cute, lays out some money on the bed(the price of the ticket), takes a photo of it, and sends it in. So a few weeks pass and he gets another letter, this one has a photo of handcuffs. He promptly paid the bill.
The three signs of great men areâgenerosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia.]
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.
The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.
The history of the denial of the Armenian genocide has passed through several phases... all characterized by efforts to avoid responsibility and the moral, material, and political consequences of admission.
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . . .
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]
Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. [Lat., Fulgente trahit constrictos Gloria curru Non minus ignotos generosis.]
The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. [Lat., Immensum gloria calcar habet.]
