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Manly Quotes (page 334)

And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink intoordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would find fault after fault, the way I did with Buddy Willard and the boys before him. The same thing happened over and over: I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all. That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be... Sylvia Plath
[The Devil] Mephistopheles, when he comes to Faust, testifies of himself that he desires evil, yet does only good. Well, let him do as he likes, it's quite the opposite with me. I am perhaps the only man in all of nature who loves the truth and sincerely desires good. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dan Brown quote: "In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man..."
In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley? Dan Brown
There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress, especially to a young mind, which has done more to man navies, and fill merchantmen, than all the pressgangs of Europe. Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
there are countless ways to live upon this tremendous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrialized, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one wrong way Tom Robbins
Jean Paul quote: "A man never describes his own character so clearly as when he..."
A man never describes his own character so clearly as when he describes another. Jean Paul
If in this world there is one misery having no relief, it is the pressure on the heart from the Incommunicable. And if another Sphinx should arise to propose another enigma to man–saying, what burden is that which only is insupportable by human fortitude? I should answer at once: It is the burden of the Incommunicable Thomas de Quincey
Gregory Corso quote: "I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is..."
I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant Gregory Corso
A man is held to be criminal, sometimes, by the great ones of the earth, not because he has committed a crime himself but because he knows of one which has been committed. Alexander Dumas
I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age... The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colour of things: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder... I treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as mere mode of fiction: I awoke the imagination of my century so that... Oscar Wilde
Otto von Bismarck quote: "Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns..."
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Otto von Bismarck
Herman Hesse quote: "The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself."
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself. Herman Hesse
A man who has blown all his options can’t afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can’t afford to admit — no matter how often he’s reminded of it — that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley… Hunter S. Thompson
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain. Edmund Burke
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them..."
He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg. P. G. Wodehouse

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