His - Quotes
If you want to know what a dead man`s relatives really think of him, a good rough test is the weight of his tombstone.
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
The chief proof of man`s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
It was one of God`s mysterious imbalances, that men are stronger than women. My grandmother told me it was his way of balancing the scales, since women are tougher and more resilient.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Species evolve only to meet the pressures of new environments. In a stable environment, a species may remain unchanged for millions of Centuries. Primitive man evolved rapidly because his environment was a harsh and changing one. Once, however, mankind learned to create his own environment, he created a pleasant and stable one, so he just naturally stopped evolving.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
The truth of God's love is not that he allows bad things to happen. It's His promise that He'll be here with us when they do.
How many observe Christ`s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! `tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all of his woes, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
We must respect the other fellow`s religion but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what so ever.