194.Quotes On Men-Part 14
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"The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?." -Henry Louis Mencken-
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.".-Henry Louis Mencken
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"When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.".-Henry Miller-
"It is defeat that turns bone to flint;it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle;it is defeat that makes men invincible.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.".-Herbert N. Casson-
"In soft regions are born soft men.".-Herodotus-
"Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!".-Iris Murdoch-
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"The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion;things to make life easier for men, in fact.".-Julie Burchill-
"However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.".-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt-
"Stability is not immobility.".-Klemens Von Metternich-
"Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.".-Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch-
"I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.".-Lord George Byron-
"Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.".-Louis Aragon-
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"The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.".-Lyndon B. Johnson-
"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.".-Matthew Arnold-
"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"Two men please God - who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him;who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.".-Nikita Ivanovich Panin-
"Men are like the earth and we are the moon;we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.".-Olive Schreiner-
"Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.".-Ovid-
"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.".-Plato-
"All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.".-Plutarch-
"Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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"Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage;they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.".-Victor Hugo-
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