quotes about people

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854



Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of a dead cow. ~Bob Ekstrom



There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971



Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. ~Evan Esar



Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners. ~Laurence Sterne



Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. ~Richard Kline



"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai. ~Leo Tolstoy



Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit? ~George Archer



The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. ~Francis Bacon



I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on. ~Billy Joel



The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit. ~Jason Love



There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. ~Wesley Bates



Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers. ~Titus Maccius Plautus



On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club



Antimetabole: figure of emphasis in which the words in one phrase or clause are replicated, exactly or closely, in reverse grammatical order in the next phrase or clause. It is similar to chiasmus although chiasmus does not use repetition of the same words or phrases. Example: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." ~John F. Kennedy



A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893



I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? ~Henry Moore



Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. ~Channing Pollock, Mr. Moneypenny



The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Author Unknown



No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde