W Quotes
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“When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees”
Source: Imperium Pelagi, a naval lyric. Epistles to Mr. Pope, concerning the authors of the age. Sea-piece. The foreign address; or the best argument for peace. Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk. Reflections on the public situation of the kingdom. An epistle to the right hon. Sir Robert Walpole. The old man's relapse. Resignation. Tragedies. Prose works
“When men once turn to brutes, the trifle of man's wit that remains in them adds tenfold to their brutality.
..."These must certainly be my comrades," said Ulysses. "I recognize their dispositions. They are hardly worth the trouble of changing them into the human form again. Nevertheless, we will have it done, lest their bad example should corrupt the other hogs. Let them take their original shapes, therefore, Dame Circe, if your skill is equal to the task. It will require greater magic, I trow, than it did to make swine of them.”
Source: TANGLE WOOD TALES
“When men perceive that nothing is restraining them but their consent to be restrained, then at last there is nothing to obstruct the free play of selfishness which is the dominant characteristic and fundamental motive of human nature and human action respectively. Politics, which may have had something of the character of a contest of principles, becomes a struggle of interests, and its methods are frankly serviceable to personal and class advantage. Patriotism and respect for the law pass like a tale that is told. Anarchy, no longer disguised as ‘government by consent,’ reveals his hidden hand…”
Source: Ambrose Bierce Collection: The Devil'S Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs, Tales Of Soldiers And Civilians, Can Such Things Be, Present At A Hanging And ... Stories, An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge,
“When men perform egocentric activities, we tag it and brush it off like "oh he's a guy, they have egos." as if to say women don't. Well, guess what? One should HOPE we have egos too. After All, without an ego the only thing left is the ID. Primary ANIMAL instincts. You know what we call people with only an ID? Psychopaths.”
“When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.”
“When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.”
“When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.”
“When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.”
“When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the public should feel himself an owner of public property – such as a Town Park – and should therefore respect it as his own, they are saying something which all our experience proves to be completely false. No man feels of public property that it is his own; no man will treat it with the care or the affection of a thing which is his own; still less can a man express himself through the use of a thing which is not his own, but shared in common with a mass of other men.”
Source: An Essay on the Restoration of Property
“When men search for God with their bodily eyes they find Him nowhere, for He is invisible. But for those who ponder in the Spirit He is present everywhere. He is in all, yet beyond all.”
Source: The practical and theological chapters ; and, Three theological discourses
“When men see an attractive woman, they fantasize about sex. When women see an attractive man they fantasize about a relationship.”
Source: Do You Come Here Often?
“When men see Han-shan
They all say he's crazy
And not much to look at -
Dressed in rags and hides.
They don't get what I say
And I don't talk their language.
All I can say to those I meet:
"Try and make it to Cold Mountain.”
Source: Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
“When men see how relevant the ten commandments are for economics, they should gain new respect for the importance of the laws of God for all of life, but especially for the life of dominion man, the man redeemed by grace through faith in the one true Dominion Man, Jesus Christ.”
“When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.”
Source: High Priest
“When men shake hands with time, time crushes
Them like tumblers; little pieces of glass.”
Source: Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
“When men [sic] avoid encounter they become inflexible and treat others as mere objects; instead of nurturing life they kill life; instead of searching for life, they flee from it. And these are oppressor characteristics.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.”
Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
“When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.”
“When men start killing other men, a craving for death enters their heart, and to kill becomes the solution for every difficulty, however small.”
“When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.”
“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.”
“When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.”
Source: The Odes of Pindar
“When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.”
Source: journal
“When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president
“When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.”
“When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.”
Source: The Prince of Tides: A Novel
“When men talk of a little hell it's because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 38
“When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.”
Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928
“When men think much, they can rarely decide.”
Source: Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
“When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless”
“When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.”
“When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being. They don't really - they seldom nail it. It takes a woman to write a really good female character. I like that.”
“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”
Source: The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine
“When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 80
“When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.”
Source: The Federalist on the New Constitution
“When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when we think of intellectual activity, we always imagine people sitting still, motionless. But mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.”
“When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.”
Source: The James Allen Companion
“When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.”
Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand
“When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.”
“When messaging is authentic, compliant & aligned, then is strategically & ethically mobilized for distribution...
It costs a lot less to market & can resonate with a lot more people.
Messaging isn't marketing. Messaging comes before marketing.”
“When messengers are sent to minister to the inhabitants of this earth, they are not strangers, but from the ranks of our kindred, friends, and fellow beings. Our fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters and friends who have passed away from this earth...bringing messages of love, warning, reproof and instruction, to those whom they had learned to love in the flesh.”
“When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.”
“When met with constant irony, abandon the expectation and appreciate the result.”
“When Mexicans sneak across the border, they're more apt to carry a bag of pot then they are a fistful of money. Because the pot can be exchanged for money, anywhere in America. Anywhere in the world!”
“When Mexico enjoys an economic boom while the U.S. is in dire fiscal straights, it seemed perfectly credible that Mexico would not roll out the welcome mat for unemployed Americans.”
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best...they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they’re telling us what we’re getting.”
“When Mia Hamm touches the ball, you just hold your breath.”
“When mice run, cats give chase.”
Source: Stray
“When Michael (Jackson) died, it felt like part of my family died. I want [my fans] to know that my music is for them and if, god forbid, anything happened [to me], it would be like a piece of them is gone.”