Quotes of: Wise-man Keyword

Five, six, seven eight-," Cecil grinned. "-Gay is just as good as straight," Dave said.

The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of

What I read told me that the Mankindman was a strange creature which stand on to legs. It seems to be a man from both sides; maybe all sides are man!

Math City

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?

The Secret Mandarin

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.

The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose

Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman

Scientific Man Vs. Power Politics

I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he’ll have a moment’s peace.

A Sense of the Ridiculous

A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.

The Second Sex

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

A Storm of Swords

It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way.

The Sea, the Sea

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Not knowing when to shut up was one of my greatest faults.

Take It Like A Man: The Autobiography Of Boy George

A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.

Them

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

One Man's Meat

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man

You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.

The Old Man and Me

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

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

There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

The Old Man and the Sea

Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent.

Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success

Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?

Postcards from No Man's Land