A Quotes
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“All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men die in silence and unnoticed behind the walls. Now and then a man, cut off from his fellows by the peculiarities of his nature, becomes absorbed in doing something that is personal, useful and beautiful. Word of his activities is carried over the walls.”
Source: Poor White
“All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!”
“All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces. (a servant in the House of Black and White)”
Source: A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four
“All men like to think that they can do it alone, but a real man knows that there no substitute for support , encouragement or a pit crew.”
“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side.”
Source: Moby-Dick: World Classics
“All men live in suffering
I know as few can know,
Whether they take the upper road
Or stay content on the low.”
Source: COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS
“All men look at Dr. Ruth and wonder how she has gained all that sexual experience.”
“All men look nerdy in black socks and sandals.”
“All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.”
Source: Memoirs and Letters
“All men love themselves.”
“All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version
“All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.”
“All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.”
“All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.”
“All men must die.”
“All men must die. We are but death's instruments, not death himself.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“All men must marry much younger women”
“All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.”
Source: The Metaphysics ...: with an English translation by Hugh Tredennick
“All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.”
Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
“All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life.”
Source: Ten Sermons of Religion
“All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.”
“All men of action are dreamers.”
Source: The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments
“All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.”
Source: Complete Writings
“All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.”
Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays
“All men of honor are alone.”
Source: The Tomb
“All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.”
Source: The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
“All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)
“All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.”
Source: Writings of John Quincey Adams
“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.”
“All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.”
“All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.”
Source: Human Happiness
“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.”
Source: Pascal's Pensées: Selections
“All men seek one goal: success or happiness.”
“All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.”
Source: DUNE
“All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!”
“All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place”
“All men should be required to have their marital status tattooed on their foreheads.”
Source: Spying in High Heels: High Heels Mysteries book #1
“All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear, you may be right”
“All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.”
Source: The New Meaning of Treason
“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”
Source: Further fables for our time
“All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator!”
“All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.”
“All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.”
“All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.”