Men Quotes - Page 32

• Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

  Robert Breault

  Animal, Mankind, Miscellaneous

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• Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

  Antonio Porchia

  Understanding, Mankind

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Littles, Merit, Circumstances

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1924). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.428, Library of Alexandria

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• First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity.

  Robert Breault

  Perfect, Might, Firsts

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• I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Character, World, Demand

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• Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

  John Barth

  Heart, Angel, Savages

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• I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Views, Attention, Infinite

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

  Immanuel Kant

  Desire, Ease, Want

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• So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

  Russell Baker

  Science, Moon, Rocks

  1969 Editoral pages, the New York Times, 21 Jul.

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• If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog.

  Robert Breault

  Dog, Real, Communication

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• Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Limits, Interest, Cease

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

  Hal Borland

  Time, Distance, Clouds

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• When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

  John Ruskin

  Effort, Grows, Labor

  John Ruskin (1871). “Works. (Author's Ed.)”, p.59

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• God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

  Mark Twain

  Effort, Found, Labor

  Mark Twain, Louis J. Budd (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays: 1891-1910”

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• Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Determination, Average, Giving

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.

  Henry Beston

  World, Earth, Spirit

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.38, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

  John Donne

  Book, World, Body

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.484

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• Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

  Samuel Johnson

  Respect, Giving, Lectures

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.119

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• Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

  Joseph Addison

  Respect, Cherish, Highest

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• What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Respect, Art, Names

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• I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Goal, Want

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• A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Respect, Merit, Ass

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.6, 谷月社

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• Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Equal, Caution, Prudence

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Life, Wise, Intelligent

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.390, Best Books on

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• The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Eye, Humble

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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