Quotes
Quotes about Man
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will b.
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Katherine Mansfield.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great, Should frame life so that at some future hour Fact and his dreamings meet.
Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present; it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.
To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.
When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort, Rising and cawing at the gun's report, Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky; So at his sight away his fellows fly, And at our stamp here o'er and o'er one falls; He murder cries and help from Athens calls.
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
A politician thinks of the next electionâ a statesman, of the next generation.
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.
"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!" And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
