Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#men

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #men




She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with a slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments. She carried her head high; her hair was done in the shape of a helmet; she had brass leggings to the knee, brass wire gauntlets to the elbow, a crimson spot on her tawny cheek, innumerable necklaces of glass beads on her neck; bizarre things, charms, gifts of witch-men, that hung about her, glittered and trembled at every step. She must have had the value of several elephant tusks upon her. She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul. ↗


— Joseph Conrad


#colonialism #women #men

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. ↗


— Aristotle


#morality #morals

It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. 'When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else. ↗


— Susan Cain


#environment

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful. ↗


— Karl Pilkington


#jellyfish #ocean #water #environment

I’d drive a thousand miles just to learn how to conserve gas and help save the environment. But that’s just who I am. I’m a thoughtful guy.
 ↗


— Jarod Kintz


#conserve #drive #driving #environment #gas

A fuel pump is a fountain drink machine for cars. And people who want to save the environment and get drunk and run to work.
 ↗


— Jarod Kintz


#drunk #environment #fuel #gas #gasoline

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004] ↗


— Desmond Tutu


#debate #discussion #persuasion #shouting #africa

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants… ↗


— Louisa May Alcott


#little-women #louisa-may-alcott #louisa-may-alcott

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. ↗


— Louisa May Alcott


#louisa-may-alcott #work #louisa-may-alcott






back to top