Ovid Quotes, Men Quotes, Risk Quotes

Daring is not safe against daring men.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ovid Quotes , Men Quotes , Risk Quotes

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Devil Quotes

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Men Quotes , Desert Quotes

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Men Quotes , Laughing Quotes

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Men Quotes , Feet Quotes

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Simple Quotes , Men Quotes

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Equality Quotes , Men Quotes

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Men Quotes

The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Men Quotes , Devil Quotes

It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Men Quotes , Weakness Quotes

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Men Quotes

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Appreciation Quotes , Men Quotes

The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Lying Quotes , Men Quotes

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Men Quotes , Air Quotes

Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Eye Quotes , Men Quotes

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Men Quotes , Stupidity Quotes

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea Quotes

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Running Quotes , Men Quotes