Quotations
Famous Quotations
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Mankind
«Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their happiness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the serving»
«Men can live without air a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months - and without a new thought for years on end.»
Author: Kent Ruth
| About:
Living,
Mankind,
Men
| Keywords:
canned food, food for thought, months, two weeks, weeks
«Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Books,
Mankind,
Understanding
| Keywords:
contents
«Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions»
«Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Civil rights,
Justice,
Liberty,
Mankind,
Men,
Morality
| Keywords:
appetites, civil liberties, civil liberty, disposition, liberties, qualified, rapacity
«Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
in proportion to, readiness, willingness
«Men become old, but they never become good»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Ageing,
Human Nature,
Mankind
| Keywords:
men, old
«Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath of God seems strangely inept»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Mankind,
Men
| Keywords:
bear on, bring to, bring to bear, inept, pitiful