Quotes About Contrast

Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

The rabbis paled. I'd managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.

Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.

One Man's food is another Man's Poison

All men are created unequal.

In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.

Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.

The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.

Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.