Quotes About Reflection

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done.

We men are wretched things.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.

You took too much man, too much, too much.

My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.

Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.

The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins." "I'm going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.