Quotes About Culture

If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

I've never gotten any complaints about my headscarf from a man. You can be sexy with a head wrap!

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.