Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.
To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards. ' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards
Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.
Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain't a man surely!
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
I'm not fit company for man or beast.
This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.
Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.
A Every man has a king and a fool in him and the one you talk to reacts.
I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.
The missing link between animals and a truly humane mankind is man himself, who does not yet see himself as a part of the world, claiming it instead for himself.
Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.
Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be effected but by one man. Hewho wants help wants everything. True, this is the condition of our weakness, but it can never be the means of our recovery. We must first succeed alone, that we may enjoy our success together.
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.
Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man.
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.
