Quotes About Contradiction

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.

Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

"Evil men have no songs." How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down.

I'm not the kind of person you think I am, I'm not the anti-Christ, or the iron man.

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.

The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.

As powerful as anyone may claim God to be, somehow he always needs money.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That's just a joke.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.