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Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find house good hard Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hours time Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art day live mankind Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique."
Quote link. Other quotes about: making Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human god law Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day life house rest Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time future fact Other quotes by Scott Adams.: "There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as 'nutty methods.' Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as a complete waste of time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: obstacles people Other quotes by Scott Adams.: "I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action."
Quote link. Other quotes by Josh Billings.: "Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Josh Billings.: "When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost run mind Other quotes by Josh Billings.: "A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over."
Quote link. Other quotes about: purpose good Other quotes by Josh Billings.: "It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think world soul Other quotes by Josh Billings.: "What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience good wise Other quotes by Josh Billings.: "It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money life making Other quotes by Josh Billings.: "The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ernest Hemingway.: "But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise wish Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little time life Other quotes by Ernest Hemingway.: "There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly in the only heritage he has to leave."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life seed Other quotes by Ernest Hemingway.: "They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Ernest Hemingway.: "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time Other quotes by Ernest Hemingway.: "An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live think wise Other quotes by La Rochefoucauld.: "The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks."
Quote link. Other quotes by La Rochefoucauld.: "If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss."
Quote link. Other quotes by La Rochefoucauld.: "A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate."
Quote link. Other quotes by La Rochefoucauld.: "There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage."
Quote link. Other quotes about: future fact Other quotes by Warren Bennis.: "The factory of the future will have two employees a man and a dog. The man's job will be to feed the dog. The dog's job will be to prevent the man from touching any of the automated equipment."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression."
Quote link. Other quotes about: need Other quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin.: "Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing wise Other quotes by Socrates.: "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato's Apology)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: think little wise Other quotes by Socrates.: "I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money old nothing good person young teach soul Other quotes by Socrates.: "I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first love young Other quotes by Victor Hugo.: "The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness."
Quote link. Other quotes by Victor Hugo.: "A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little people country Other quotes by Victor Hugo.: "There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old love young soul Other quotes by Victor Hugo.: "I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god nothing time men food soul Other quotes by Victor Hugo.: "From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Victor Hugo.: "If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience america mankind discover Other quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin.: "The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew (or what they thought they knew) was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown."
Quote link. Other quotes about: saint sin law rule Other quotes by Victor Hugo.: "To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing fact Other quotes by George Eliot.: "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
Quote link. Other quotes about: worse Other quotes by George Eliot.: "There are many victories worse than a defeat."
Quote link. Other quotes about: woman Other quotes by Sophocles.: "Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master."
Quote link. Other quotes by William of Wykeham.: "Manners maketh man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy life Other quotes by Sophocles.: "Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live wise Other quotes by Sophocles.: "Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right hate dead Other quotes by Sophocles.: "It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old life love grow Other quotes by Sophocles.: "No man loves life like him that's growing old."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god Other quotes by Sophocles.: "Reason is God's crowning gift to man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: house Other quotes by Sophocles.: "Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Sophocles.: "Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship reason friend nothing friends Other quotes by Sophocles.: "I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "He who seizes the right moment is the right man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live law Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing good mankind influence wish Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think never conscience Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world rich Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation."
Quote link. Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find hard Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
Quote link. Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world men respect understand wish fact Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut."
Quote link. Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good women society Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "The society of women is the element of good manners."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human people Other quotes by Robert Zend.: "There are too many people, and too few human beings."
Quote link. Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: book Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right understand Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man."
Quote link. Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be."
Quote link. Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "A clever man commits no minor blunders."
Quote link. Other quotes about: worse Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be."
Quote link. Other quotes about: light woman Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth Other quotes by Confucius.: "The object of the superior man is truth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "The ground that a good man treads is hallowed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope life wish Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."
Quote link. Other quotes by Confucius.: "The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first success Other quotes by Confucius.: "The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person rest forget Other quotes by Confucius.: "The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved."
Quote link. Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find understand Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "The man of understanding finds everything laughable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find Other quotes by Confucius.: "If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech Other quotes by Confucius.: "The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right old think life forget Other quotes by Confucius.: "The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first success Other quotes by Confucius.: "The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live Other quotes by Confucius.: "The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small little Other quotes by Confucius.: "The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old Other quotes by Confucius.: "There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die never men Other quotes by Confucius.: "Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right mind Other quotes by Confucius.: "The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything what is right he will follow."
Quote link. Other quotes by Confucius.: "The superior man is satisfied and composed the mean man is always full of distress."
Quote link. Other quotes by Confucius.: "When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find right Other quotes by Confucius.: "A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend woman Other quotes by Jeseph Joubert.: "Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man."
Quote link. Other quotes by Jules Renard.: "I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts financial worries. - Journals"
Quote link. Other quotes by Jules Renard.: "The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."
Quote link. Other quotes by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.: "A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god Other quotes by John Milton.: "... If weakness may excuse, What Murderer, what Traitor, Parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it All Wickedness is Weakness That plea therefore With God or Man will gain thee no Remission."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think past Other quotes by John Milton.: "If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day child Other quotes by John Milton.: "The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men good making Other quotes by John Milton.: "Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small Other quotes by Confucius.: "What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength friend men life beauty love friends sin mind words Other quotes by Confucius.: "If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength power something world nothing life success Other quotes by Vince Lombardi.: "Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe little life courage Other quotes by Vince Lombardi.: "A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe life mind Other quotes by Vince Lombardi.: "Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him"
Quote link. Other quotes about: work believe good lies Other quotes by Vince Lombardi.: "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."
Quote link. Other quotes by Robert Benchley.: "The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."
Quote link. Other quotes by Stanislaw Lec.: "Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody."
Quote link. Other quotes by Stanislaw Lec.: "All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Herodotus.: "If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think Other quotes by Vince Lombardi.: "Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can."
Quote link. Other quotes about: democracy Other quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr.: "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
Quote link. Other quotes by Rudyard Kipling.: "On the road to Mandalay Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power mankind Other quotes by Rudyard Kipling.: "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth never deep run rule Other quotes by Vince Lombardi.: "The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win. And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Sallust.: "Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good evil Other quotes by Sallust.: "A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power Other quotes by Sallust.: "To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful."
Quote link. Other quotes by Sallust.: "Every man is the architect of his own fortune."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship happiness friend love friends Other quotes by Sydney Smith.: "Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time never mind Other quotes by Wayne's World.: "Wayne Am I supposed to be a man, am I supposed to say, it's OK, I don't mind. I don't mind. Well I mind I mind big time And you know what the worst part is I NEVER LEARNED TO READ."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason Other quotes by Sydney Smith.: "Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first education Other quotes by Thomas Huxley.: "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little Other quotes by Thomas Huxley.: "If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger."
Quote link. Other quotes by Thomas Huxley.: "Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe Other quotes by Thomas Huxley.: "Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing Other quotes by Thomas Huxley.: "Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world alone Other quotes by Thomas Huxley.: "The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books book good Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mankind Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money wise Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love woman married grow perfect Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason right Other quotes by Sydney Smith.: "It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him."
Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."
Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "A man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old never Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them never happened."
Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it."
Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right fact Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time life Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate when he can't afford it, and when he can. - from Following the Equator"
Quote link. Other quotes about: right light Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe think wish Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain."
Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics."
Quote link. Other quotes about: honest look Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little people influence naked society Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
Quote link. Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old father hard Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human discover law Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."
Quote link. Other quotes about: brother Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend good perfect Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth live world never men respect beauty children success love child perfect look soul Other quotes by Robert Louis Stephenson.: "The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children who has filled his niche and accomplished his task who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend love Other quotes by Robert Louis Stephenson.: "So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends Other quotes by Robert Louis Stephenson.: "Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends"
Quote link. Other quotes by Robert Louis Stephenson.: "Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth think people mind Other quotes by Aristotle.: "The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work friend Other quotes by Aristotle.: "This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend wish Other quotes by Aristotle.: "The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by Aristotle.: "It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen."
Quote link. Other quotes by Aristotle.: "It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die world men need heaven Other quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.: "I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.: "He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason good mind Other quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.: "The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
Quote link. Other quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.: "Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: society rich Other quotes by John F. Kennedy.: "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans america world freedom country Other quotes by John F. Kennedy.: "And so, my fellow americans ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mankind war Other quotes by John F. Kennedy.: "Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature mankind law Other quotes by S. E. Lindsay.: "Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people hate love Other quotes by Tom Lehrer.: "I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that"
Quote link. Other quotes about: god Other quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.: "Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world never Other quotes by Marcus Valerius Martialis.: "The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live Other quotes by Marcus Valerius Martialis.: "A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere."
Quote link. Other quotes about: dead Other quotes by Groucho Marx.: "Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped."
Quote link. Other quotes about: evil Other quotes by Johann K. Lavater.: "Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it'"
Quote link. Other quotes about: find good evil Other quotes by Johann K. Lavater.: "Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world forget Other quotes by H. Mathews.: "A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find world peace Other quotes by George C. Marshall.: "If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known."
Quote link. Other quotes by Madonna.: "Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work female need woman forget Other quotes by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.: "Funny business, a woman's career the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Quintus Fabius Maximus.: "To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend book Other quotes by Groucho Marx.: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
Quote link. Other quotes by William G. McAdoo.: "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mankind religion conscience Other quotes by Robert Millikan.: "I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind."
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Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing deep Other quotes by Moliere.: "Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed."
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Quote link. Other quotes about: right mankind Other quotes by Sophocles.: "To err from the right path is common to mankind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing Other quotes by Thomas Overbury.: "The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Titus Maccius Plautus.: "Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience believe god life Other quotes by Jeff Melvoin.: "First I thought it was numbness, shock. The inability to believe that a just God could allow someone to destroy a gold mine of prehistoric knowledge for a year's worth of Salisbury steak...Life is a mystery. One man's life- altering experience is another man's tenderloin."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power book light Other quotes by Ezra Pound.: "Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk little Other quotes by Pythagoras.: "Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little silence value words Other quotes by Pythagoras.: "It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power Other quotes by Phaedrus.: "It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful."
Quote link. Other quotes about: belief Other quotes by Kent Nerburn.: "Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness."
Quote link. Other quotes by Sylvia Plath.: "There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: respect law Other quotes by Adam Clayton Jr. Powell.: "A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck."
Quote link. Other quotes about: brother mankind belief Other quotes by Adam Clayton Jr. Powell.: "Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality."
Quote link. Other quotes about: conscience Other quotes by Polybius.: "There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason never fact Other quotes by Hesketh Pearson.: "Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first time look Other quotes by Pliny the Elder.: "Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected"
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise Other quotes by Pliny the Elder.: "No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments."
Quote link. Other quotes about: young Other quotes by Titus Maccius Plautus.: "It well becomes a young man to be modest."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend need Other quotes by Titus Maccius Plautus.: "Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise Other quotes by Titus Maccius Plautus.: "No man is wise enough by himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science never fact Other quotes by Ivan Pavlov.: "Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america power day live people Other quotes by Faith Popcorn.: "The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office)."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day Other quotes by Sextus Propertius.: "Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Cardinal de Retz.: "A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope time people Other quotes by Herbert Rappaport.: "I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope Other quotes by Quida.: "Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power Other quotes by Quintilian.: "It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad never good Other quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld.: "We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life pain Other quotes by Real Live Preacher.: "My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad old something Other quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld.: "Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong Other quotes by Saint John Chrysostom.: "No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mankind important Other quotes by Edith Sodergran.: "The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses."
Quote link. Other quotes about: teach Other quotes by Peretz Smolenskin.: "There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work god Other quotes by Francis Cardinal Spellman.: "Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science art Other quotes by Ralph J. Smith.: "Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Ruben Studdard.: "I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find history think Other quotes by C. P. Snow.: "When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time people Other quotes by James Thurber.: "You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Caecilius Statius.: "The whole world is a man's birthplace."
Quote link. Other quotes about: war Other quotes by Joaquin Setanti.: "Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."
Quote link. Other quotes about: respect Other quotes by Lawrence Sterne.: "To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners."
Quote link. Other quotes by Henry Stimson.: "The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Henry Stimson.: "The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth day live Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.: "A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off"
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience death friend think world life understand good important friends alone family fact Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.: "The fact that we don't know this man, isn't important really. Cause his experience is our experience, and his fate is our fate. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass, says the preacher. All is vanity I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us. When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame, family, friends, we all face death alone. But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life. I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass. Only when we understand all is vanity, only then, it isn't."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life mother hate women love woman fear Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.: "Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love."
Quote link. Other quotes about: young Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.: "Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel."
Quote link. Other quotes by Cornelius Tacitus.: "He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time people Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.: "Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.: "As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something people Other quotes by Jesse Stuart.: "Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope war woman law Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.: "What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science nature Other quotes by William A. Smith.: "Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong think mankind answer lies Other quotes by Charles M. Schulz.: "I know the answer The answer lies within the heart of all mankind The answer is twelve I think I'm in the wrong building."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Marchioness Townsend.: "Never tell a man you can read him through and through most people prefer to be thought enigmas."
Quote link. Other quotes by Theophrastus.: "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."
Quote link. Other quotes by Bert Leston Taylor.: "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe truth hard Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human ideas Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."
Quote link. Other quotes about: look Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ men good wise Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live government Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Judge Gideon J. Tucker.: "No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human life Other quotes by George Tooker.: "Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe hard Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
Quote link. Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe mankind Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth world mankind love country Other quotes by Baha'u'llah.: "It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day world Other quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick.: "The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mother success Other quotes by Hubert Humphrey.: "Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hate women Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "A man never tells you anything until you contradict him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world living war Other quotes by Isaac Asimov.: "Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work nothing never success Other quotes by Isaac Asimov.: "You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Anais Nin.: "Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk god class making Other quotes by Billy Madison.: "Billy No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Josephus Daniels.: "Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
Quote link. Other quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright.: "If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sleep Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad find god good person forget Other quotes by Hubert Humphrey.: "You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america strength find right friend respect house today war friends Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world men hate war young Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."
Quote link. Other quotes about: history wise future run lies Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men person education society Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man."
Quote link. Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk Other quotes by Hilaire Belloc.: "The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."
Quote link. Other quotes by James Allen.: "Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: woman young Other quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.: "A woman's always younger than a man of equal years."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books god friend book good Other quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.: "No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sin single Other quotes by Antoine De Saint-Exupery.: "A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
Quote link. Other quotes about: living Other quotes by Antoine De Saint-Exupery.: "He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find creative Other quotes by Antoine De Saint-Exupery.: "It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."
Quote link. Other quotes by Antoine De Saint-Exupery.: "What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old time rest Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost reason mind Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her."
Quote link. Other quotes about: respect Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe fact Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth happiness life Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty something Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: need Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience history Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience life Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason world Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work born Other quotes by Antoine De Saint-Exupery.: "One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right history never Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men mind Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think hate Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "Every man over forty is a scoundrel."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "Beware of the man whose God is in the skies."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mankind love Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "All mankind love a lover."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life sin Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god wise fear Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."
Quote link. Other quotes about: beauty wisdom Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "One man's justice is another's injustice one man's beauty another's ugliness one man's wisdom another's folly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first mind Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day sun change Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: person sin alone Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work mind Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power first value Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find wise Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "A man is related to all nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: beauty belief born Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america father Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books book courage wisdom alone Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: class good Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power wife Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "A man's wife has more power over him than the state has."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Every man I meet is in some way my superior."
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