Quotes About Man

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Time and tide and hookers wait for no man.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

Nae man can tether time nor tide.

You know what I think, Sarah? I think that when God made all those animals, He was practicing. He made them all different shapes and sizes, and He just kept on practicing. For when He made man. But He had to practice a lot, first. That's why the animals are all so different-looking. What do you think? 'Sometimes,' Sarah said, 'I think He didn't practice enough.

I bit down a saucy reply. This man was genuinely concerned about me. He did not deserve sauciness.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

I felt a thrill. Something more than wealth more even than love, was to be my portion. The living of a clean life in sight of God and man.

easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure.

If Man was the highest achievement of Nature's grand design, then Nature had a sense of humor. Whereas

A short, chesty man with a round face wreathed in an expression of constant, surprised good humor, waved cheerily to her.

did not fulfil the whole of the promised payment to Sir Thomas for the French lords, cousin.' I smiled at Edward. 'Many would think you parsimonious but we know that you were merely stretched with other expenditure. And of course you were displeased, as would any proud man be

The more flawed a man was, the shoddier it was to take advantage of his inadequacies to destroy him.

All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its poetry can be beautiful; it can make us shiver with the recognition of things we have always suspected or felt. It can draw us back to times when the earth was new to man, and wondrous. But always we come back to the way the earth is now.

Tonio Treschi was that half man, that less than man that arouses the contempt of every whole man who looks upon it. Tonio Treschi was that thing which women cannot leave alone and men find infinitely disturbing, frightening, pathetic, the butt of jokes and endless bullying, the necessary evil of the church choirs and the opera stage which is, outside that artifice and grace and soaring music, very simply monstrous.

If you are evil, how can voluptuousness and debauchery be your enemies? Don't the world, the flesh, and the devil conspire equally against man?

Beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and as lawless as it had been eons before man had a single coherent thought in his head.

Good and evil, those are concepts man has made. And man is better, really, than the Savage Garden.

He gets lost, or thirsty beyond the point where he can hunt on his own. I have to search for him. He was that way as a man before he was ever made a blood drinker. The blood didn't change him except for a little while. And now he's enslaved to these tiny worlds he creates.

Innocent. The word burned through the pleasure. In a luminous drift of figures and voices he emerged, pushing his way through the crowd; Stirling, the man, pleading with me in my mental vision, saying Innocent. There I was, the boy of that old time, and Stirling saying Innocent.

It's no devil,' I said. 'And why do you say that?' she asked again, as if we hadn't discussed this before. 'Because,' I said, 'the Devil has more important things to do if he exists at all, and on the point of his existence at all I am not certain.' 'Where did you get an idea there was no Devil?' 'Rousseau,' I said. 'His philosophy argues that the worst evil is in man.

My mortal life had been shattered, my soul soaring and then fallen, my vampire life erasing all the small accomplishments and consolations of the man I'd once been.

Sólo en la complejidad podemos encontrar las respuestas. A través de la complejidad el hombre lucha hacia la claridad; es un proceso lento y lleno de obstáculos, pero es el único camino. La simplicidad exige demasiados sacrificios. Siempre los ha exigido.

It was the man of memory and the man of visions that I knew as soon as I studied him.