Quotes
Quotes about Men
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds.
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisement.]
The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms.
Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what you read in books may be more pointed, yet there is something in the voice, the look, the carriage, and even the gesture of the speaker, that makes a deeper impression upon the mind. [Lat., Praeterea multo magis, ut vulgo dicitur viva vox afficit: nam licet acriora sint, quae legas, ultius tamen in ammo sedent, quae pronuntiatio, vultus, habitus, gestus dicentis adfigit.]
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.
When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.
If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing Auctioneer.
A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.
There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.
Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other. The music people . . . they give thanks for the gift and reflect the love.
Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."
