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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| A. A. Milne | No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that is was human nature. | |
| Aaron Burr (1756 - 1836) | Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action. - (Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804.) | |
| Adolf Hitler | What luck for rulers that men do not think. | |
| Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) | He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool. | |
| Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) | Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. - (novelist, playwright and philosopher) | |
| Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) | It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. | |
| Albert Schweitzer | Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. | |
| Anatole France (1844 - 1924) | It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. | |
| Anonymous | There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over. | |
| Anonymous | Use it up, wear it out; Make it do, or do without.
- (New England maxim) | |
| Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) | If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, whould the human race continue to exist? | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881) | Life is too short to be small. | |
| Bertolt | There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste. | |
| Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) | There are time you have to choose between being human and having good taste. | |
| Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) | Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so. | |
| Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) | If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. | |
| Casey Stengel | The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. | |
| Cervantes | We are all as God made us and frequently much worse. | |
| Charles M. Schulz | I love mankind, it's people I can't stand. | |
| Dalai Lama 14 (1935 - ) | Today, we are truly a global family. What happens in one part of the world may affect us all. | |
| David Fernández | The only thing that separates us from the animals is the belief that we are separate from the animals. | |
| don device (1965 - 1993) | Mankind is a habit God is trying to break | |
| don device (1957 - 1999) | Presuming one can be beloved, why then cannot one be behated? Beheaded seems a bit over the top somehow..." - (unknown iconoclast) | |
| Don Marquis (1878 - 1937) | The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. | |
| Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) | I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. | |
| Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) | I think that if the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | Were one half of mankind brave and the other half cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave they would lead an uneasy life; all would be continually fighting. But being all cowards we go on very well. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man 'a good man', upon easier terms than I was formerly. | |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) | Though force can protect in an emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. | |
| E. M. Cioran | He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama. | |
| Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) | The play is the tragedy "Man',And the hero is the conqueror 'Worm'. | |
| Evelyn Waugh | Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time. | |
| Fred Allen (1894 - 1956) | If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign the human race. | |
| Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) | Everything that is ponderous, Vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety amoung Germans. | |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. | |
| G. K. Chesterton | Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. | |
| George Moore | Humanity is a pigsty where liars, hypocrites and the obscene in spirit contregate. | |
| Giacomo Leopardi | Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind. | |
| Glasworth | One's eyes are what one is; one's mouth, what one becomes. | |
| Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977) | Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication. | |
| H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946) | Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. | |
| H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) | It is hard to elieve that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. | |
| H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) | The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. | |
| H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) | Don't over estimate the decency of the human race. | |
| Halifax | Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. | |
| Halifax | Men often mistake themselves, but they never forget themselves. | |
| Henry Morgan | A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself. | |
| Herbert Spencer | The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. | |
| Hoffer | Our greatest pretenses are build up not to hide the evil and the guly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. | |
| Hoffer | The basic test of freedom is prehaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. | |
| Hooton | A brain weight of nine hundred grams is adequate as an optimum for human behavior. Anything more is employed in the commission of misdeeds. | |
| John (1867 - 1933) | The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy - (author, Nobelist) | |
| John Ruskin | No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. | |
| John Stuart Mill | If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified insilencing mankind. | |
| Joseph Baretti | I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. | |
| Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930) | Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet. | |
| Laurence J. Peter | Two can live as cheaply as one - if they both have good jobs. | |
| Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1990) | The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. | |
| Laurens van der Post (1906 - 1996) | Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. - (explorer and writer) | |
| Lord Acton | In a country where there is no distinction of class, a child is not born to the station of its parents, but with an indefinite claim to all the prizes that can be won by thought and labor. | |
| Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) | If we see no other nation but our own, we do not give mankind a fair chance... | |
| Malcolm De Chazal | I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips. | |
| Marcel Proust | Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpiueces. | |
| Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) | Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse. | |
| Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) | Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. | |
| Mark Twain (1935 - 1910) | A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose. | |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) | In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. | |
| Martin Mull | Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen. | |
| Miss Manners | It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. | |
| Nicholas Chamfort | The only thing that stops God from sending a second flood is that the first one was useless | |
| Nicolas Chamfort | Who ever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | Man has will, but woman has her way. | |
| Oscar Arias | We must talk about disease and hunger. As scary as terrorism is, there are far scarier threats to human security that receive only a fraction of the attention. - (President, Costa Rica) | |
| Otis Beck | Most men are morons. Women are much better; they are fools. | |
| Pascal (1623 - 1662) | Who is unhappy at having only one mouth? And who is not unhappy at having only one eye? | |
| Pascal (1623 - 1662) | Our notion of symmetry is derived from the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and ain breath only; not vertically nor in depth. | |
| Pascal (1623 - 1662) | All men naturally hate each other. | |
| Peter Lucht (1/8/1953 - ----) | Cultivate an Obligation to Evolution. - (Poet) | |
| Professor A.C.B. Lovell | Unless the utmost care is exercised, space-vehicles may contaminate the planets. | |
| Richard Feynmann (1918 - 1988) | The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things. | |
| Robert | The biggest man ya ever gonna see,
Was once a baby,
In this life - (African Herbsman) | |
| Russian Proverb | German; a good fellow maybe; but it is better hang him. | |
| Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) | The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. | |
| Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) | Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo, not for a man. | |
| Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) | Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. | |
| St. Augustine (354 - 430) | One can say: "I will, but my body does not obey me"; but not: "My will does not obey me." | |
| Stephen Millich (1941 - ) | You cannot save people from themselves. | |
| Steven Wright | The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. | |
| Tennessee Williams | We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. | |
| Unknown | Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it. | |
| Valery | To know oneself is to forsee oneself; to forsee oneself amounts to playing a part. | |
| Voltaire | To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. | |
| W. Somerset Maugham | The nature of men and women -- their essential nature -- is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you. | |
| Walt Haskins | The greatest tragedies of life are those that got nothing that they wanted and those that got everything that they wanted. - (Author ) | |
| Walter Bagehot | One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. | |
| William Hazlitt | Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them. | |
| William James | There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. |
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