Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.
He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
Well, it would have to be “The Man Who Was Thursday.” It’s a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in politics.
Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain?
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.
Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.
Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.
Working on 'Mad Men,' everything is word for word. And, honestly, I couldn't come up with anything better than that, so it's fine.
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!
The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.
Man, Books & Booze is cool, right?. That's the most fun I've had in an interview this year. Definitely the most singing I've done.
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.
You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love -But you will not assuage him. He aloneOf all the gods will take no gifts from men.
Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.
A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.
Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.
What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.
If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.
Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.
Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.
Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.
I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.
Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.
The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.
If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.
Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.
Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.