Quotes with man-eating

Quotes 3181 till 3200 of 4603.

  • Thomas Hobbes The condition of man is a condition of war of every one against everyone.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Napoleon The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Victor Hugo The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ben Johnson The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Antoni Gaudi The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.
    Antoni Gaudi
    Catalan architect
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  • Raymond Chandler The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Max Lerner The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Paul De Man The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Ashley Montagu The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Adam Ferguson The cunning man uses deceit, but the more cunning man shuns deception.
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • John W. Gardner The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Horace Greeley The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
    Horace Greeley
    American editor (1811 - 1872)
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  • Susan B. Anthony The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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