Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 5500.
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As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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As both capitalist and communist states - not to mention the technological world - have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
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As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.
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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
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As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
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As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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As man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
Source: On War (1832) -
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man's belligerent capacity.
Source: A Distant Mirror
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