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Manly Quotes (page 233)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to..."
A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Woe to him who could look on and say: The fool! If she had waited, if she had let time do its work, her despair would surely have subsided, another man would have turned up to comfort her? That's just like saying: The fool, dying of fever! If she had waited until his strength returned, his circulation improved, the tumult of his blood calmed down, everything would have turned out well and he would still be alive today! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Disease, and most specially opprobrious, suppressed, secret disease, creates a certain critical opposition to the world, to mediocre life, disposes a man to be obstinate and ironical toward civil order, so that he seeks refuge in free thought, in books, in study. Thomas Mann
George R. R. Martin quote: "She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always..."
She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait. George R. R. Martin
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Then the great hour struck, and every man showed himself in..."
Then the great hour struck, and every man showed himself in his true colors. Fyodor Dostoevsky
J. M. Barrie quote: "The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write on..."
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write on story, and writes another. J. M. Barrie
Alexander Dumas quote: "When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all..."
When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast. Alexander Dumas
In his funeral oration the spokesman of the most artistic and critical of European nations, Ernest Renan, hailed him as one of the greatest writers of our times: ‘The Master, whose exquisite works have charmed our century, stands more than any other man as the incarnation of a whole race,’ because ‘a whole world lived in him and spoke through his mouth.’ Not the Russian world only, we may add, but the whole Slavonic world, to which it was ‘an honour to have been expressed by so great a Master. Ivan Turgenev
He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhiliration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings. (The Power and the Glory) Graham Greene
To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human. Ivo Andric
A couple of minutes later, the turbolift doors hissed open. Spock was standing in the turbolift. He had the air of a man who had been in an extreme hurry, but who had been stopped in midrush and given something he didn't understand. He was holding a small flat cushion. Diane Duane
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked in poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy. Charles Dickens
Sri Chinmoy quote: "When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all,..."
When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad. Sri Chinmoy
Alexis de Tocqueville quote: "A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to..."
A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him. Alexis de Tocqueville
We laugh, we cry, we work, we play, we love, we live. And then we die.? And dead we would remain but for one Man and His mission, even Jesus of Nazareth.? With all my heart and the fervency of my soul, I lift up my voice in testimony as a special witness and declare that God does live. Jesus is His Son, the Only Begotten of the Father in the flesh. He is our Redeemer; He is our Mediator with the Father. He it was who died on the cross to atone for our sins. He became the firstfruits of the... Thomas S. Monson

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