Quotes
Quotes about Man
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop. -Henny Youngman.
Joy is a partnership, Grief weeps alone, Many guests had Cana; Gethsemane but one.
And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get "something." That's the way our system works.
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
