"Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]"

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Men Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Worst Quotes

“A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.”

Source : Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan
“I am convinced, that when a man tells a woman he loves her, he only means that he desires her; and that the only total love in this world is that of a father for his son.”
“To know one thing, you must know the opposite.”
“I at least want to keep having fun, and the rest we will see.”
“As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.”

Source : Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “Works”, p.247
“There's a moon in my body, but I can't see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can't hear it!”
“War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.”
“When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last part of the descent, and collapsed on the Rongbuk glacier, and he was crawling over it on hands and knees when the woman who was his entire support team reached him; and he looked up at her out of a delirium, and said, â€œWhere are all my friends?”

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