John Arbuthnot Quotes

It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.

John Arbuthnot

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• There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • American
  • Community
  • Sports

• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Sports
  • Won

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

  

  Cara Buono
  • Men
  • Mad
  • Being

• I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Work
  • Men
  • Woman

• In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Men
  • Gay
  • Looking

• I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Morning
  • Sports
  • Door

• 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

• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Man

• Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Love
  • Weakness
  • Meat

• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Bad
  • Sports
  • Mistake

• This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
  • Argument

• I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• I'm a sports fan sometimes when I'm drunk. All my friends gamble on sports so whenever we watch a game, everyone's pissed off at the end! Sometimes the commentators speak so quickly, I think you've got to be on drugs to listen to them.

  

  Pablo Francisco
  • Friends
  • Game
  • Sports

• So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Honor
  • Property

• The most recent evidence ... suggests that the economic expansion remains on track.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Evidence
  • Track
  • Expansion

• It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • Men
  • Sports
  • Poet