Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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• Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Wife

• From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Black
  • Day

• Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Fashion

• High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Men
  • High
  • Girl

• Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

  

  Cara Buono
  • Men
  • Mad
  • Being

• Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Men
  • Military
  • Duty

• Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Violence

• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Mystery

• In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • May
  • Truth

• All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Men
  • Texas
  • Class

• Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Life
  • Men
  • Home

• Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Men
  • Women
  • Kids

• If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Men
  • Want
  • Say

• When you drive a car, either you manage it and feel it with the grip of the car, or, like me, you fix it on visual speed. If you do it through the grip, you lose it very quickly - because when the track changes, you can have scares. I do it visually, so if I am going too fast I fight to get the car back, but I do not do it by feeling the grip.

  

  Jean Alesi
  • Feeling
  • Car

• I lack routine with yoga, sleep, and food but do my best to keep consistency amongst the chaos.

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Sleep
  • Yoga
  • Chaos

• I'm very open to the up-and-comers.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Up

• I haven't heard them n.d.r. he's talking about some Spanish popular folk songs and probably never shall because I no longer go to the places where one could hear them, for I have got into my head that I should maintain a certain presence and air for dignity.. ..that a man should have, and you can imagine that I'm not very happy about it.

  

  Francisco Goya
  • Happy
  • Air
  • Popular

• Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Men
  • Improvement
  • Instinct