Quotes
Quotes about Men
The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we anything to eat?" will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good ;consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty, chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve, In all the magnanimity of thought; Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. And why? because he thinks himself immortal, All men think all men mortal but themselves.
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathingâ that's why we recommend it daily.
Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.
Most men are bad.
'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.
Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause â you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.
Men forget everything; women remember everything.
Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.
