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Man Quotes (page 462)

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to. Erich Maria Remarque
C. S. Lewis quote: "No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is..."
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city. C. S. Lewis
William Shakespeare quote: "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. William Shakespeare
I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the cards, for there is almost certainly something illegal, or dangerous, or both, involved in the matter. Robert A. Heinlein
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the..."
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky
George Byron quote: "I see before me the Gladiator lie: / He leans upon his hand -..."
I see before me the Gladiator lie: / He leans upon his hand - his manly brow / Consents to death, but conquers agony. George Byron
Neil Gaiman quote: "Love belongs to Desire. And Desire is always Cruel. -Old Man"
Love belongs to Desire. And Desire is always Cruel. -Old Man Neil Gaiman
Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it? C. S. Lewis
I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me! Emily Dickinson
The business man who assumes that this life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. "Yes, I see, dear; it's about halfway between," Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility. E. M. Forster
What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos... the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man... Robert M. Pirsig
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "But the child's sob in silence curses deeper / Than the strong..."
...But the child's sob in silence curses deeper / Than the strong man in his wrath. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The band has decided to give him and his wife a much needed break from the road to start a life and have a proper honeymoon and do all the things a newlywed couple should do. I'm very proud to announce my brother's recent marriage. Watching him grow up into a man and finding love makes me the happiest brother alive. I know this is upsetting news, as it is for us, but we will continues to tour with a temporary replacement until he has situated himself in his new life. Gerard Way
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog. George Byron
I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh? Terry Prachett

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