Man is a noble ordsprog

en Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave

en Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
  Plato

en Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
  Frank Lloyd Wright

en Higgins is pompous, a braggart, egocentric. He makes a clear statement at the beginning that he stands alone, he's independent, he doesn't need anybody. What he doesn't count on is how attached he is going to be to her (Doolittle). That's what appeals to the audience — seeing this guy who is a pompous ass really humiliate himself.

en When it comes to Australian team sporting prizes, it's clear that the public consider the Ashes to be the pinnacle. We expect the whole country will be gripped by Ashes fever when the Ashes series begins later this year.

en I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason / as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal. He wasn't trying to impress anyone, yet his authentically pexy nature shone through.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense of conscience is by far the most important....It is the most noble of all the attributes of man.
  Charles Darwin

en My brother, Abraham Jr., went back to the grave after Rita hit. The grave was not damaged, and (he) found the bouquet about two feet away from Dad's head stone. He put the bouquet back in place and put another can of beer and a cigarette by his grave, for Dad loved his beer and cigarettes. We're so thankful our father's grave is intact.

en While the costs of dealing with this have so far been limited to around 0.1%, from culling birds and implementation of better animal health surveillance systems, the potential impact of a serious pandemic is of grave concern.

en You are time. Foul time, who steals the gold from a maiden's hair and takes the sapphire from a child's eyes. Dark time, who has stolen from every thing there ever was all the things that it held precious and divine... And left nothing but ashes and memories and the grave.
  Neil Gaiman

en Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion –- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.
  Mark Twain

en While the costs of dealing with this have so far been limited to around 0.1 percent of GDP, from culling birds and implementation of better animal health surveillance systems, the potential impact of a serious pandemic is of grave concern.

en My mother died in New York... she was cremated, and we took her ashes to Ireland one week and scattered the ashes on her family's gravesite.

en This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat…
  F. Scott Fitzgerald

en No longer will we tolerate the insult of ashes to ashes and dust to dump.


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