#men

It is better to live on the sea and let other men raise your crops and cook your meals. A house smells of smoke, a ship smells of frolic. From a house you see a sooty roof, from a ship you see Valhalla. ↗

— Harald Halfdanson Viking Tales

#norse-mythology #vikings #men

If the Creator had said, "Let there be light" in Ankh-Morpork, he'd have got no further because of all the people saying "What colour? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#men

Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#ray-bradbury #sin #truth #men

Even animals know how stupid the wars are, but men, know not yet! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#men

Beware of singing divine psalms for an ordinary recreation, as do men of impure spirits, who sing holy psalms intermingled with profane ballads: They are God’s word: take them not in thy mouth in vain. ↗

— Lewis Bayly

#men

Men were notorious for their acts of disloyalty. ↗

— Margaret Way

#men #men

I am the keeper of the beast, though all men harbor a beast in the depths of their heart -- callous, calamitous creatures, driven by deviant demands and derisive diligence. -- From the short story What Rough Beast ↗

— Michael Hibbard

#men #philosophy #men

Detta är en sann historia - men ändå inte helt sanningsenlig. I verkligheten var allt mycket värre... ↗

— Birgitta Andersson

#men

Men have differed in opinion, and been divided into parties by these opinions, from the first origin of societies; and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. the same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time. Whether the power of the people, or that of the (best men; nobles) should prevail, were questions which kept the states of Greece and rome in eternal convulsions... ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#politics #men

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#men