Quotes of: Honest-man Keyword

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

Spanish

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too bus to take care of his tools.

Traditional

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully. ("Three O'Clock")

The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: Rear Window and Other Stories / I Married a Dead Man / Waltz into Darkness

We have developed communications systems to permit man on earth to talk with man on the moon. Yet mother often cannot talk with daughter, father to son, black to white, labour with management or democracy with communism

Communication: Methods for All Media

I strike fear into you because I am a man?" "It isn't funny." "I do not laugh. It is a sad thing, yes, that your husband is a man. A very terrible thing.

Comanche Moon

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers.

The Color Master: Stories

My lady Silk, remember that a man always gains in stature any way he chooses to associate with a woman - including adultery...but in her association with a man, a woman is always in danger of being diminished.

Changes: A Love Story

In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing at all; to all intents and purposes I don't exist. I am just a Vox et preaterea nihil.

Crome Yellow

In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol 1

Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.

Death at La Fenice

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

Dracula

If none of us ever fell short, or put a foot astray, everything would be good in this great world, but we stumble and fall, every one. We must deal with what we have." - Cadfael, Pg. 245-6

Dead Man's Ransom

By the way, only a real man can accept his feminine side." "I don't know who fed you that line of garbage, but I can promise she's laughing at you right now.

The Darkest Seduction

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

Dead Souls

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science

I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.

Delta of Venus

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and sound interpretation of the empirical facts.

An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.

Eurydice in the Underworld

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

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