Husayn al-Nuri al-Tabarsi, Mustadrak al-Wasā'il, vol. 11, p. 324
Source: The Analects, Other chapters
“To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.”
Handwriten message on Elvis' King James -Bible
Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Context: The analysis of the moral man through his actions, and of the intellectual man through his productions, seems to me calculated to form one of the most interesting parts of the sciences of observation, applied to anthropology.
“Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.”
As quoted in Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1890) by Julia B. Hoitt, p. 73
“When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.”
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
This was the lead sentence in an article "Democrats Usher in An Age of Treason" by conservative author J. Michael Waller in Insight magazine (23 December 2003) which a copyeditor (http://www.factcheck.org/misquoting_lincoln.html) mistakenly put quotation marks around, making it seem a quote of Lincoln.
Misattributed
“We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.”
The Irony of American History (1952)
Context: We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.
Ch. 4, p. 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=Ma3RAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+is+a+sort+of+man+who+pays+no+attention+to+his+good+actions+but+is+tormented+by+his+bad+ones+this+is+the+type+that+most+often+writes+about+himself%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage
The Summing Up (1938)
“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
Variant: A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man
Source: The Godfather
