Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.
Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.
It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.
There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.
A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.
What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.
I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.
A poor man celebrates the New Year once a year. A rich man celebrates each day. But the richest man celebrates every moment.
Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
I'm a pragmatic man. I'll veer on the dangerous side, because I love dangerous subjects, but I won't shoot a show in the foot.
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.
A black man, but I feel so blue. So I smoke green and purple to my dreams come true. And my eyes turn red, the sky turns grey.
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
Nowhere Man embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. Its really near and dear to my heart.
A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.
If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
Henry's breath hissed out through his teeth. That ba-bad man, he finished, with a quick glance at Cecily, who rolled her eyes.
Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.
... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.
Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: Lou, youre a leading man because youre a good actor. Brought tears to my eyes.
Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.
I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.
A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.
We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.
I do think that there are - again, gross generalization - more women than men that can tolerate that or that are OK with that.
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.
The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.
A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.