Quotes
Quotes about Men
I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it.
Appreciating each other is a true family value, one that will bail out much of the stress on the planet and help strengthen the universal bond all people have. Doc Childre, The How To Book of Teen Self Discovery When I start appreciating, I look at it like business. I start by appreciating life itself. After all, life is really a gift. It might not always seem like that's true, but it is. If nothing else, it's a gift of discovery. So I appreciate that! Doc Childre and Sara Paddision, HeartMath Discovery Program What you put out comes back. The more you sincerely appreciate life from the heart, the more the magnetic energy of appreciation attracts fulfilling life experiences to you, both personally and professionally. Learning how to appreciate more consistently offers many benefits and applications. Appreciation is an easy heart frequency to activate and it can help shift your perspectives quickly. Learning how to appreciate both pleasant and even seemingly unpleasant experiences is a key to increased fulfillment. Mother Teresa -Sara Paddison.
Such comfort as do lusty young men feel When well-apparelled April on the heel Of limping Winter treads, even such delight Among fresh fennel buds shall you this night Inherit at my house.
April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter, Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears!
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended.
When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer build such piles? I replied: "Dear Alphonse, men in those days had convictions (Ueberzeugungen), we moderns have opinions (Meinungen) and it requires something more than an opinion to build a Gothic cathedral.
Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.
He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse. He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a Lord may be an owl, A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice, And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.
I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied; They rail, reviled; as often ends The contests of disputing friends.
His conduct still right with his argument wrong.
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.
I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar.
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door wherein I went.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
