Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 4532.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
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In youth one marvels that man remains at so low a stage of civilisation, in later life one marvels that he has got so far.
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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
The New Yorker, March 28, 1953, quoted in David Remnick, Reporting It All: A.J. Liebling at 100, The New Yorker, March 29, 2004 -
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
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Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
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Industrial man -a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
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Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
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Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.
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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
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Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?
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Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
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