Quotes of: Decent-man Keyword

And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.

Pharsalia: The Civil War

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners

A man is what a man is; he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them.

Transcendental

Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself

The Wise Man's Fear

Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

The Wise Man's Fear

The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

The Wise Man's Fear

Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.

The Wise Man's Fear

Music explains itself...It is the road and it is the map that shows the road. It is both together.

The Wise Man's Fear

Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share.

The Wise Man's Fear

To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.

Waiting for Godot

Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube.

The Zürau Aphorisms

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

James A. Garfield

The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and prophecy of the corporate life of man.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

As a man gets older, his regrets changes. Especially when he's gotten into the Scotch.

The Forgotten Man

We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine-

The Man in the High Castle

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

Henry Miller

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

H. L. Mencken

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

H.L. Mencken

He was the ocean and I was the sand, i lived content in stillness and he washed a shore everytime, as a better man.

Nikki Rowe

Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.

Omar Dorsey