"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not."

Man, Words

39

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Man,

"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

Arthur Capper, American Politician

Man, Men, War, Europe, States

"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

Jean Kerr, American Playwright

Man, Speech

"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

Voltaire, French Writer

Man, Men, Thought, Thoughts, Authority

"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

Charles Lyell, British Lawyer

Man, Proof

"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

Man, Men, America, Monument, President

"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."

Alan Moore, British Writer

Man, Men, People, Energy

"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

Man, Men, Act

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Man, Voice

"The strong man is strongest when alone."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

Man,

Explore more quotes by John Dewey

"Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home."

Home

"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning."

Happiness

"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."

Man

"Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living."

Education

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

Education

"No man's credit is as good as his money."

Money

"Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy."

Society

39

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Man quotes

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."

"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."

"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

"The strong man is strongest when alone."

Explore more quotes by John Dewey

"Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home."

"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning."

"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."

"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."

"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live."

"Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind."

"Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living."

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

"No man's credit is as good as his money."

"Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy."