Quotes 1461 till 1480 of 2273.
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Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
Love at Second Sight (1916) Ch. xviii -
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
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Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.
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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
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Some men like me talkin' happy
Some calls it snappy
Some call me honey
Others think I got money
Some tell me baby you're built for speed
Now if you put that all together
Makes me everything a good man needs.Billies Blues -
Some men make gain a fountain whence proceeds
A stream of liberal and heroic deeds;Charity 244 -
Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.
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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
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Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''
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Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
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Some men treat the God of their fathers as they treat their father's friend. They do not deny him; by no means: they only deny themselves to him, when he is good enough to call upon them.
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Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its inevitability, want it in order to shift the locus of their problems.
The Causes of World War Three (1960)
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