Quotes of: Sane-man Keyword

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Robert E. Lee

A man is old when he takes the whole night to do what he used to do all night long.

Chinese

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Chinese

When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so.

Czech

Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.

Mongolian

When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.

Russian

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 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