Quotes About Reflection

When I do think, 'Man a f—cking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars worth of narcotics would do me right,' I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster's never seen me high.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.