"Dawn: When men of reason go to bed."

Man, Men, Bed, Reason

5

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Man quotes

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Man, Men, Truth, May, Order

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Man, Skill

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Man, Men, History, Necessity

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Man, Passion

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

Man, Mind, Order, Pain

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Man, Nothing

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Man, Men

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Man, Men, Goodness

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Man, Woman

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

Voltaire, French Writer

Man, Risk

Explore more quotes by Ambrose Bierce

"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."

Failure

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Art

"Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

Identity

"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

Law

"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."

Genius

"God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past."

History

"Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to."

Society

"Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star."

Accountability

"Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge."

Love

"On this night I had searched for them without success, fearing to find them; they were nowhere in the house, nor about the moonlit dawn. For, although the sun is lost to us for ever, the moon, full-orbed or slender, remains to us. Sometimes it shines by night, sometimes by day, but always it rises and sets, as in that other life."

Reflection