Voltaire Quotes, Believe Quotes, Men Quotes

The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Believe Quotes , Men Quotes

As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Hate Quotes , Men Quotes

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , School Quotes , Men Quotes

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Men Quotes , Glory Quotes

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea Quotes

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Men Quotes

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Wine Quotes , Men Quotes

Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Men Quotes , Hair Quotes

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. In a position of wealth and honor, he does what is proper to a position of wealth and honor. In a poor and low position, he does what is proper to a poor and low position.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Men Quotes , Honor Quotes

At the end of the playback of the take of "Like A Rolling Stone", or actually during the thing, Bob Dylan said to the producer, turn up the organ. And Tom Wilson said, oh man, that guy's not an organ player. And Dylan said, I don't care, turn the organ up, and that's really how I became an organ player.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Al Kooper Quotes , Player Quotes , Men Quotes

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Men Quotes

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Men Quotes , Long Quotes

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Nature Quotes , Men Quotes

The superior man limits his achievements.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Men Quotes , Limits Quotes

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Men Quotes , Good Man Quotes

The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Cat Quotes , Men Quotes

Difference which exists between the lowest, so-called men, and the other higher races is greater than between the lowest men and the highest apes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Men Quotes , Race Quotes

If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Art Quotes , Men Quotes