“The cruelest revenge of a woman is to remain faithful to a man.”
Paul Bourget (1852–1935) French writer
La plus cruelle vengeance d'une femme est quelquefois de nous rester fidèle. <br class="br"> Physiologie de l'Amour Moderne http://books.google.com/books?id=5H5cAAAAMAAJ&q=%22La+plus+cruelle+vengeance+d'une+femme+est+quelquefois+de+nous+rester+fid%C3%A8le%22&pg=PA326#v=onepage (1889)
“Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
" Diddling: Considered As One Of The Exact Sciences http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.1390/"; first published as "Raising the Wind" in Saturday Courier (1843-10-14).
“Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Tunnel in the Sky
Source: Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Chapter 2, “The Fifth Way” (p. 42)
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
He is certainly a brother to wolves, and to pandas too, but he is father to dragons, not brother: they, like many gods and devils, are inventions of his.
“On the Underside of the Stone”, p. 177
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
“Man is a reasoning animal.”
Rationale enim animal est homo.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLI: On the god within us
“As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.”
Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister
19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967
“Man [is a] tool-making animal.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Quoted by James Boswell in The Life of Samuel Johnson, April 7, 1778 https://books.google.de/books?id=nuINAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA199&dq=tool-making (1791). <br class="br">Decade unclear
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
F 49
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
“Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.”
Mark Twain book Following the Equator
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXVII
Following the Equator (1897)
