D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Humor Quotes, Men Quotes

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

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The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

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I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.

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Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul

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I thought it out this very day, Noon upon the clock, A man may put pretence away Who leans upon a stick, May sing, and sing until he drop, Whether to maid or hag.

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There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

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Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

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There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

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Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

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My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

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In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

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A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.

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I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

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If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.

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The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

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There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.

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Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

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