Quotes of: Wise-man Keyword

Every man has at least one nightmare he'd like to keep to himself.

Seas of a Dark Storm

It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.

Thor, Vol. 1

Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.

Orthodoxy

It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.

Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved

Instead of playing Draw Something, fucking draw something

Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living

Man is like a bride unto God. God is jealous when man veers away from Him.

The Prince and the Pauper

And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.

Pharsalia: The Civil War

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners

A man is what a man is; he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them.

Transcendental

To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.

Waiting for Godot

Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube.

The Zürau Aphorisms

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

James A. Garfield

The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and prophecy of the corporate life of man.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

As a man gets older, his regrets changes. Especially when he's gotten into the Scotch.

The Forgotten Man

We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine-

The Man in the High Castle

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

Henry Miller

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

H. L. Mencken

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

H.L. Mencken

He was the ocean and I was the sand, i lived content in stillness and he washed a shore everytime, as a better man.

Nikki Rowe