quotes about men being jerks

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Second Series, 1844



After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history. ~Author Unknown



National honor is national property of the highest value. ~James Monroe, first inaugural address, 4 March 1817



Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. ~Author Unknown



Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb



Putting lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel. ~Roger Simon, 1988



Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ~Pietro Aretino



Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.



Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ~Errol Flynn



Each fairy breath of summer, as it blows with loveliness, inspires the blushing rose. ~Author Unknown



In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ~Benjamin Franklin



A hole is nothing at all, but you can still break your neck in it. ~Author Unknown



The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. ~James Russell Lowell



The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars. ~Andre Gide, Journals, 4 August 1930



Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord.



So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. ~Francis Bacon, "Of Studies"



Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. ~Joe Garagiola



A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. ~Author Unknown