For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Men will leave off the heavy task of m...
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical...
When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which ...
I think the men in L.A. are very rugged, good-looking. Men in New York look metro with their manis and pedis and their Bruno Magli loafers, but inside they're very masculine - aside from the Meatpacking District. The problem is the men in New York ar...
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.
Men see only the present; heaven sees the future.
Thousands of men were murdered because of their beautiful wives.
Lazy men get active when it's time to sleep.
You can close the city gates but not the mouths of men.
Every madman thinks all other men mad.
The world is a wheel and men are the felloes, and the devil prowling around spins.
When men take wives they stop fearing hell.
Men are just as God made them -- and a little worse.
Physicians' faults are covered with earth, and rich men's with money.
Six feet of earth make all men equal.
Men make the earth black from green leaves.
To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience...
The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution.
If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.
It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.
