"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it."

Man, May

37

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

Man,

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Man, Men, Society

"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Right, Wind

"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Man, Promise

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Man,

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Men, Company, Grief

"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Man, Sea, Shipwreck

"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Men, God, Statesman

"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Man,

"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Man, Men, Poetry, Progress, Hate

Explore more quotes by William Ralph Inge

"True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."

Faith

"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."

Education

"Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person."

Life

"Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance."

Life

"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion."

Opinion

"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."

Optimism

"Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself."

Opportunity

"The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot."

Enemy

"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true."

Trying

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due."

Interest