Quotes About Self-preservation

Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn't my trip.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Same Money or Nobody will save you.

Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Misery loves company. For the sake of your sanity, avoid entertaining her.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.