Quotes
Quotes about Men
There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
As drifting logs of wood may haply meet On ocean's waters surging to and fro, And having met, drift once again apart, So, fleeting is the intercourse of men. E'en as a traveler meeting with the shade Of some o'erhung tree, awhile reposes, Then leaves its shelter to pursue his ways, So men meet friends, then part with them for ever.
Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.
A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.
The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a momentâbut who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
The painful memories of the past will shape our future; the moments we cherish last forever in a beautiful array of remembrance.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .
Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
