Acceptance Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can?…

— Henry David Thoreau

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows

— Charles M De Talleyrand

“The Pygmies and the Bushmen, these oldest of all peoples, remind us that our capacities for mutuality, cooperation, and empathy are every bit as…

— John Robbins

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say…

— Zoe Kazan

I'm getting some pygmy goats and a miniature donkey. Who needs a man?

— Coleen Nolan

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“If a man has too much arm and leg hair, he is not a man, just merely an ape.”

— Young-Joon Choi

Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more; his enormous…

— Dian Fossey

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

— Richard M. Nixon

I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!

— Ken Kesey

“How far the gentlemen of dark complexion will get with their independence, now that they have declared it, I don’t know. There are serious…

— H.L. Mencken