Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

Anthony Hope

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

Anthony Horowitz

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

Anthony Horowitz

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

Anthony Horowitz

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

Anthony Kiedis

I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat men who eat hamburgers!

Anthony Hopkins

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

Alison Brie

You know, 'Mad Men' is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.

Alison Brie

I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.''

Alicia Keys

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

Alice Paul

Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.

Alice Sebold

I left my mark on that man.

Alice Sebold

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

Alice Walker

I want a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism. Notice how this word has "man" right in the middle of it? That's one reason I like it. He is right there, front and center. But he is surrounded. I want to vote and work for a way of life that honors the feminine.

Alice Walker

One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

Alice Walker

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

Alice Walker

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

Alice Walker

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

Alice Walker

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Alice Walker

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

Alice Walker

As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

Alice Walker

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

Abraham Verghese

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

Abraham Verghese

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

Abraham Lincoln

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

Abraham Lincoln

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

Abraham Lincoln

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

Abraham Lincoln

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

Abraham Lincoln

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

Abraham Lincoln

No man ever got lost on a straight road.

Abraham Lincoln

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

Abraham Lincoln

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.