Quotations for the Fast Lane by Pound Richard W.;

Author:Pound, Richard W.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2013-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

MACHINES

Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate, and stupid.

William M. Kelly

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

But I suppose sooner or later the machinery would have stalled without your fine Italian hand.

Kathleen Thompson Norris

The larger and more complex a machine, the more unforgiving it is when something goes wrong.

Unknown

MACHISMO

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Germaine Greer

MAD

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Denis Diderot

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.

Salvador Dali

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Samuel Beckett

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

Diogenes the Cynic

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Rudyard Kipling

MAGAZINES

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

Fran Lebowitz

MAGIC

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing government and business.

Tom Robbins

MAINTENANCE

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Kurt Vonnegut

MAJORITY

We go by the majority vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

Horace Mann

When you get too big a majority, you’re immediately in trouble.

Sam Rayburn

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius

MALES

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.

Rebecca West

MALICE

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

Patrick Kavanagh

MAN

Man is a social animal who dislikes his fellow men.

Eugène Delacroix

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

Plato

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.

George Orwell

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

Rabindranath Tagore

But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides … The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

Robert Audrey

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

G.K. Chesterton

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Basically, it’s made up of two words: “mank” and “ind.” What do these words mean? It’s a mystery, and that’s why so is mankind.

Jack Handey

The intellect of man is forced to choose/Perfection of the life or of the work.

William Butler Yeats

The greatest nuisance to mankind is man.

Samuel Butler

The man who is master of his passions is Reason’s slave.

Cyril Connolly

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

Oscar Wilde

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

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