mean quotes about men

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. ~Alexander the Great



The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." ~Isaac Asimov



Prayer is communication with the Divine. It can be whispered or chanted or written or expressed in the work you do. However it is expressed, it is never in vain. ~Donna Wilk Cardillo



The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. ~Alice Kahn



The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation. ~Louis Fabian Bachrach



I always thought that my airplane conveyed a silent sermon. To the earthbound observer, its silhouette was the shape of the cross on which Jesus was crucified. ~E.R. Trimble



There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution. ~Frederick Douglass



Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. ~William Hazlitt, The English Comic Writers, 1819



If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb



At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat. ~William Lyon Phelps



He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859



People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do. ~Author Unknown



The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone. ~Bill DeWitt, 1972



There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~Author Unknown



It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages. ~Henry Ford, 1922, also sometimes quoted as "It is the customer that pays the wages"



But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may, perchance, be further polished, and illustrate and accommodated for use and practice, but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance. ~Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning



In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air. ~Changing Times magazine



To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. ~Joan Didion



Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. ~Garrison Keillor Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. ~Garrison Keillor