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Childhood the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about childhood, youth, sin, age, olderness, human imperfections, life

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Quote by Adam Smith about generosity, humanity, virtue, woman, man

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother, it's inflammatory.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about word, human imperfections

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

Quote by George Herbert about nature, spring, lie, day

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about mathematics, human imperfections, god, nothing, love

A human life gains luster and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

Quote by Masutatsu Oyama about life, human imperfections

If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep.

Quote by Masutatsu Oyama about opinion, trains, sleep, human imperfections, being, life, contentment

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it. "

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about opinion, mother, contentment, human imperfections, being

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

Quote by William Faulkner about earth, human imperfections

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

Quote by Walt Disney about people, human imperfections, nothing

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, heart, human imperfections

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

Quote by Walt Whitman about people, body, human imperfections, things

If it hadn’t been for Death, then there wouldn’t be Life either, and as Life feeds Death, is possible that Death in return would feed Life at the cosmic lunch of the human feelings.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about death, feelings, life, human imperfections

By understanding Evil just as well as Good, the human being will understand itself and with this it will disappear the self alienation of man at an individual level as at the social level.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about good, self-control, human imperfections, being, good luck, man

True religion must fight against Evil in man and be aside him, being the only way to avoid existing Evil of the human self in another type of Evil that will be closer to Good or could even surpass it in Goodness. It will consequently determine...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about religion, self-control, human imperfections, perfection, being, fight, good, good luck, man

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Quote by Mark Twain about humor, sadness, joy, secret, human imperfections

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Quote by Jean Anouilh about opinion, human imperfections, world

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Quote by George Orwell about future, vision, human imperfections, contentment, face

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Quote by George Orwell about opinion, saints, temptation, human imperfections, people

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

Quote by Jacques-Yves Cousteau about nature, attack, love, people