When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.
To quarrel with a man of good speech is better than to converse with a man who does not speak well.
A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.
In stories, when someone behaves uncharacteristically, we take it as a meaningful, even pivotal moment. If we are surprised again and again, we have to keep changing our minds, or give up and disbelieve the writer. In real life, if people think they ...
I lent my ear to the patient's lips - so close that I could feel his fetid, warm breath on my skin. "Can you tell me where I can find Señora Jucinta Coronado?" I asked for the last time. I was afraid he'd bite me. Instead he emitted a violently loud...
A curse. Been in our family for generations. The Lees have always been perverts. I shall never forget the unspeakable horror that froze the lymph in my glands--the lymph glands that is, of course--when the baneful word seared my reeling brain: . I th...
That evening, in her apartment, still in Warsaw, Ana takes down a book from her shelf – a rather thick, ordinary paperback. It looks old, because it's worn out and somehow shabby. But it's not ordinary. I can tell by the way she handles it so caref...
Bertier: Well, you think I look banged up, you should see my Camaro. Big Ju: Man, I sure am sorry, man. I should have been there with you. Bertier: What are you talking about? You would've been in that bed right next to me. Big Ju: You can't be hurt ...
Old Man: As the pattern gets more intricate and subtle, being swept along is no longer enough. Boat Car Guy: Man this must be like... parallel universe night. You know that cat that was just in here? Just ran out the door? Well, he comes up to the co...
Antonio Salieri: [to Father Vogel] So rose the dreadful ghost from his next and blackest opera. There, on the stage, stood the figure of a dead commander. And I knew, only I understood that the horrifying aparition was Leopold, raised from the dead! ...
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
The source of man is in man,and when a man dies,millions of men die in him.
You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
Sisters, if you got a good man, honor him.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
