Quotes
Quotes about Man
International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one.
A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy, How well supplied with noble counsellors, How modest in exception, and withal How terrible in constant resolution, And you shall find his vanities forespent Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus, Covering discretion with a coat of folly; As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots That shall first spring and be most delicate.
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies.
Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental inharmony.
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of Aids than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The younger disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.
Vice President Dick Cheney is currently out in South Dakota on a three-day hunting trip. What better place for a man who has had four heart attacks than to be carrying a big gun and a backpack through the snow looking for red meat.
There are no such things as incurables; there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. [Lat., Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati.]
She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.
