Quotes
Quotes about Men
A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men.
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Every madman thinks all other men mad.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'eloge ment apres leur mort.]
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit: Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called; Which some professing have erred concerning faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia] for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.
The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard. [Fr., Rien ne pese tant qu'un secret: Le porter loin est difficile aux dames; Et je sais meme sur ce fait Bon nombre d'hommes que sont femmes.]
