Quotes About Paradox

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

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

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

I am a God-fearing man. In fact, I don't go to church because I'm afraid I'll run into him there.

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.