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Men Quotes by Lin Yutang
- The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a…
- It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
- I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He…
- Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
- The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon…
- All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to…
- After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes…
- There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.
- How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell…
- O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living…
- Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to…
- A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
- No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
- The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but…
- The wise man reads both books and life itself.
- If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in…
- The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.
- When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle