Witold Gombrowicz Quotes

Man does not fear death, only the suffering.

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• For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Men
  • Different

• Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Men
  • Sin

• Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Men
  • Hair
  • Beer

• Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Respect

• In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• Men tend to be selfish.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Men
  • Selfish
  • Tend

• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Human

• The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Men
  • Happy

• Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Men
  • Children
  • Morning

• If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Men
  • American
  • Death

• Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Men
  • Different
  • Emotional

• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Boredom

• I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Men
  • Day
  • Door

• Women artists are still treated differently from men.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Men
  • Women
  • Artists

• I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Men
  • Red
  • Pink

• To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Men
  • Equal
  • Contempt

• The land of Beulah lies beyond the valley of the shadow of death. Many Christians spend all their days in a continual bustle, doing good. They are too busy to find either the valley or Beulah. Virtues they have, but are full of the life and attractions of nature, and unacquainted with the paths of mortification and death.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Nature

• We have the same team that we did before. But the race is getting tougher and tougher. It's only January, but we're already looking at scores after the game to see who's losing and who's winning.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Game
  • Team
  • Winning

• I think our path to the Olympics is a good metaphor for how you build a company. Our skill and commitment grew over time, day by day, stroke by stroke. So, sports are tied well with our entrepreneurial pursuits because you train for a few years, but there is no guarantee that you will succeed.

  

  Tyler Winklevoss
  • Time
  • Good
  • Sports

• It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.

  

  Enoch Powell
  • English

• Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

  

  Ivanka Trump
  • Enjoy
  • Act
  • Modeling

• Man does not fear death, only the suffering.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
  • Men
  • Suffering