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  • When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Confucius Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes
  • I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Fall Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what they are feeling. If a new scientific theory finds the soul of a man in his dreams, at least it ought not to leave out his day-dreams. And all fiction is only a diary of day-dreams instead of days. And this profound preoccupation of men's minds with certain things always eventually has an effect even on the external expression of the age.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Dream Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Lying Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Al-Ghazali Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes
  • I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Wise Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phénomène", Fr.) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : African Spir Quotes , Men Quotes , Intelligent Quotes