Quotes of: Wise-men Keyword

As I look back on my life, I think of how few rules should be followed. As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him... Honor. A man's honor should ...

Roman Payne

As I look back on my life, I think of how few rules should be followed. As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him... Honor. A man's honor should ...

Roman Payne

Two mystic states can be dissociated: the ecstatic-beneficent-and-benevolent, contemplation of the divine love, the divine splendour with goodwill toward others. And the bestial, namely the fanatical, the man on fire with God and anxious to stick his...

Ezra Pound

Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to fashion worlds and make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry to dispense His alms and bestow his bounties. they will allow Him to sustain t...

Charles H. Spurgeon

Yes, My Son, man is a piece of wood, that can be used for everything, from the moment he’s born until the moment he dies, he’s always ready to obey, send him there and he goes, tell him to halt and he stops, tell him to turn back and he retreats,...

Jose Saramago

Hood 1: Hey, who do you think you are, huh? Garth: Just a dumb kid, Hub. Don't kill him. Hub: [to Garth] Right. [Grabs Hood 1 by the throat] Hub: I'm Hub McCann. I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thou...

Secondhand Lions

Anne Napolitano: I don't believe that God made man in his image. 'Cause most of the shit that happens comes from man. No, I think man was made in the Devil's image. And women were created out of God. 'Cause after all, women can have babies, which is ...

The Fisher King

Combo: But I've got one question to ask you. Do you consider yourself English, or Jamaican? [There's a long uneasy silence, as Milky looks around nervously to the rest of his friends... ] Milky: [eventually] English. Combo: Lovely, lovely, love you f...

This Is England

King Leonidas: This is where we hold them. [pause] King Leonidas: This is where we fight! [pause] King Leonidas: And this is where THEY DIE! Captain: On these shield, boys! Spartans: AU! King Leonidas: Remember this day, men, for it will be yours for...

300

Colonel Nicholson: Now, there's another important decision that can't be postponed. As most of the British soldiers will be working on the bridge, only a small number will be available for railway work. So, I must ask you, Colonel Saito, to lend us s...

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

The Cost of Discipleship

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

Civil Disobedience

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

Cat's Eye

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Collected Essays

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.

The Children of Men

Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman. -Jillian's mother

Catch a Mate

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

Commencement

Because it's not muscles that make men strong. Secret do. The more secret you keep, the stronger you are on the inside.

Confess