Quotes on Men

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

Comming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter, "He's an old soppy really, just poke him if he's a nuisance," and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of the Pleistocene gleam and flicker.

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.

Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

The happy man in this life needs friends.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.

The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.