Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. Nov 30, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
