Diogenes Quotes
Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"
Diogenes
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
Zoe Saldana
When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
Dan Quinn
Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
Earl Derr Biggers
Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
C. Wright Mills
If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
Warren Farrell
This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
Walter Reisch
Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.
Omar Dorsey
The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
Patrick Dempsey
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Owen Feltham
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
Barry Gibb
Bee Gees
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
Sabine Baring-Gould
How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."
Plato
From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.
Pat Buchanan
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
Jack Henry Abbott
Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"
Diogenes
