Quotes About Choice

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

It takes a man to make a devil.

He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.

If a man takes you to a restaurant of his choosing, don't compliment him. Rave about the quality of the food and he'll be thrilled, because he took you there.

It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

I haven't figured out why people like what they like. I don't know. I wish I did. I could sell that to everybody, man, and be a millionaire.

Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth

How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.

Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.