One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Listen to those quiet, nagging doubts." If you don't know, you don't know what you don't know, you don't know how much you don't know, and you don't know...
[Lt. Farman offers the brilliant but innocent Altaira some sugar for her coffee] Altaira: But you keep helping me. After all, you're not Robby. Lt. Farman: [chuckles] I wouldn't mind being Robby in certain ways. Uh, that's only in *certain* ways, of ...
Berlin: Did I tell you that when you were circumcised they threw away the wrong part? David Gale: Yes, I believe you mentioned it. It's called schmuck. Berlin: What? David Gale: Part of the foreskin they throw away after circumcision, I believe it is...
Smeagol: Clever Hobbits, to climb so high! [jumps on them, pins Frodo to the ground and grips him by the throat] Smeagol: Mustn't go that way! Mustn't hurt the Precious! Frodo: You swore! You swore on the Precious! Smeagol: [mocking] Oo-hoo-hoo-hoo.....
Lt. Gen. George Miller: So you're not resigning? Karen Clarke: Are you still playing the hawk? Simon Foster: Well, in... in a way I'm playing a much cleverer game than that... I'm a fake hawk. Lt. Gen. George Miller: [pause] A what? Simon Foster: ......
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
Learn to love and broke man to marry a good man.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one solution —it is called pregnancy. Man is for woman a means: the purpose is always the child. But what is woman for man? Two different things wanted the true man: danger and diversion...
[Unser Leben] ist unüberwindlich verworren nur dann, wen man an sich denkt; aber in dem Augenblick, wo man nicht an sich denkt, sondern sich fragt, wie man einem anderen helfen könne, ist es sehr einfach.
I have believed the best of every man, and find that to believe it is enough to make a bad man show him at his best or even a good man swing his lantern higher.
A little man often cast a long shadow.
A learned man without work is a cloud without rain.
Let the man who has suffered ask it -- not the man who has travelled.
The joy of a poor man does not last long.
Every man assumes the colors of his surroundings.
The wise man and the tortoise travel but never leave their home.
Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.
A happy man does not hear the clock strike.
