Quotes of: True-man Keyword

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Chinese

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Chinese

A young woman with an old man is really someone else's woman.

Chinese

When the poor man sets a trap only his dog gets caught.

Cameroonian

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

English

The old man looks death in the eye, the young man keeps him behind his back.

Estonian

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

French

The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.

German

You have to put a young girl onto an old man.

Greek

To quarrel with a man of good speech is better than to converse with a man who does not speak well.

Sanskrit

A young woman is to an old man the horse that he rides to hell.

Spanish

A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

Yiddish

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.

Contempt

Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart.

The Complete Poems

...Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable. Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan's strings. p.338

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.

Eat Now; Talk Later: 52 True Tales of Family, Feasting, and the American Dream

The beauty of the human soul Is not the pretty face. It’s found within the heart and hands Of those who look — and stay.

Eye of the Beholder: True Stories of People with Facial Differences

Because the human experience involves loss, we need to feel it, express it, and then release it. Only then do we achieve healing.

Eye of the Beholder: True Stories of People with Facial Differences

I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.

Eona: The Last Dragoneye