Jean Paul quotes
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men.
Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.
Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?
With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don't ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.
Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.
And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.
Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.
A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.