He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs to one another.
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Related (regarding Charles Lee) This eccentric and notably slovenly man was always trailed by his beloved do... RON CHERNOW He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be... CRAIG FERGUSON Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644 To judge aright we must judge as Christ judged... JOHN OMAN You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy t... BETTY WHITE So what is the fallout for dogs of the Lassie myth? As soon as you bestow intelligence and morality,... JEAN DONALDSON He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, jus... KIT WILLIAMS At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings... AYN RAND Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures ... SIR HENRY TAYLOR Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures ... HENRY TAYLOR Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer... JOHN CONNOLLY Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming. HENRY ROLLINS We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us ANNE SOPHIE SWETCHINE Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has ... JOHANN VON GOETHE Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into... ESTHER VILAR Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives. PAT CONROY Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they a... LISA KLEYPAS The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not... JOSEPH O'NEILL So when two dogs are fighting in the streets,
When a third dog one of the two dogs meets:
With... HENRY FIELDING What I saw was an opportunity for young men who were already being plagued by crime, an opportunity ... RUSS MOORE The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares AGONA APELL Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatene... URSULA K. LE GUIN The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on t... LAURIE LEE Last was man. One by one God judged them all; Those who were his He saved for his pleasure, Th... JONAS PEREZ You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Some men are dogs; some dogs are women. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA You probably think you know all about men, because you read a lot of romance novels, so you think yo... OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY They were living to themselves: self, with its hopes, and promises, and dreams, still had hold of th... ELIZABETH PAYSON PRENTISS He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are. EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are EDWIN A. ROBINSON To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loya... KARL KRAUS His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time h... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM God wanted to redeem men and open the way of salvation to those who seek Him. But men make themselve... BLAISE PASCAL Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he me... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not... PERICLES What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are ... LEONARD COHEN Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jacket... BALTASAR GRACIAN Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon th... JOSEPH HELLER They said they were anhungry; sighed forth proverbs--
That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs mus... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does a... AMBROSE BIERCE ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does a... AMBROSE BIERCE Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their... LAURA HILLENBRAND No two dogs are alike. And yet, all dogs have something in common that makes them dogs, and makes th... OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY He put his life on the line. How many men are willing to put their lives on the line for what they b... BOB BARNETT Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could... J.M. BARRIE It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped i... DIANA GABALDON Be jealous of fellow men, but of those men who are pious - your fellow men who are honest, sincere a... MIZAN CHAUDHURY He ran in the house. I went over there. (What were the dogs doing?) They were on a chain. One was in... CURTIS BOLDEN We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, m... THOMAS MERTON As one looks back through the ages, all the great men are men of faith: the Newtons, Faradays, Darwi... SIR WILFRED T. GRENFELL Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He ga... ANNA SEWELL The possibility of rejection was ever present. St. Paul did not establish himself in a place and go ... ROLAND ALLEN And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, o... JOHN CHRYSOSTOM Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can. KIM CATTRALL In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... C. JOYBELL C. He'd been too late for Sin. He'd been too weak for Lou. He'd been too young for his dad. They'd all ... AIS Some people just keep cats and dogs for fun at first. Once problems occur, the cats or dogs are just... HUANG HAILIANG Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd,... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable. ANON. Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable. ANONYMOUS Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they
think laughable. JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Arag... J.R.R. TOLKIEN We only had a brief time to talk, ... He accepts responsibility for what he did, and is terribly, te... JAMES BURKE I had always disliked men. It must have been born in me, because, as far back as I can remember, an ... L.M. MONTGOMERY Lincoln never finished his education. To the night of his death he was a pupil, a learner, an inquir... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They... JULIAN BARNES Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immedia... JONATHAN CARROLL He didn't ask what I was thinking, which was out of character for him. I guessed that meant that he ... STEPHENIE MEYER If that child dreaming by the wireless had been asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, what I h... JOHN BANVILLE Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - an... FREDERICK SMITH For of what use is existence to the creature if it cannot know its Maker? How could men be reasonabl... ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, and all... CONFUCIUS Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In our family, we've always been owned by border collies, or dogs of one kind or another, and ha... GARY PAULSEN Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in ou... NEIL STRAUSS To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of ... JORGE LUIS BORGES Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. KIN HUBBARD Men are punished by their sins, not for them. ELBERT HUBBARD Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what th... DEMETRIUS (PHALEREUS) Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ELBERT HUBBARD Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of th... JORGE LUIS BORGES Perhaps he was probing the enigma of why men fall in love with their dreams, which are then so destr... JUAN FILLOY Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years. ROBIN HOBB Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve me... JOSEPH HELLER There is always hope for man or dog in life if only they be cute CHRIS PARISEAU Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religio... RALPH WALDO EMERSON As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives. ANTHONY LICCIONE The Divine may have created many hells", he says, "but I think they pale beside what men create for ... ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT I think it's rather an insult to dogs. Men are awful: arrogant, nasty creatures. MICHAEL WINNER Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angel... LYDIA M. CHILD Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angel... LYDIA MARIA CHILD Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why m... THOMAS S. SZASZ For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of de... THOMM QUACKENBUSH Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their ... DEAN KOONTZ Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why me... Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why me... THOMAS S. SZASZ
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