“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”
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“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.”
“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.”
“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”
“The worst men often give the best advice.”
“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.”
“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.”
“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.”
“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.”
“A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.”
“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”
“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.”
“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.”
“Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.”
“Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.”
“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”
“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.”
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”
“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”
“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.”
“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.”
“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”
“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”