Famous Quotes & Sayings

Afeni Shakur

The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.

Aesop

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

Aesop

A man is known by the company he keeps

Aesop

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Aesop

Every man for himself.

Aesop

Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

Aesop

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Aesop

A fair-minded man tries to see both sides of an argument.

Aesop

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

Aesop

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

Aesop

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

Aesop

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Aeschylus

When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

Aeschylus

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

Aeschylus

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

Aeschylus

Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

Aeschylus

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Aeschylus

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

Aeschylus

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

You can be negative and still be sexually active. Studies show that men who know their status are better able to protect themselves and their partners.

We were mental midgets. We didn't step up.

Maria Sharapova

When it's that hot, just mentally you've got to be so tough.

We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.

John Updike

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man....

Karen Armstrong

I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

Don Thompson

We want students to know what they are getting into, ... The recruiters mention travel, but they don't mention the Middle East.

Simone Weil

Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

Jane Addams

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

Jane Addams

What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of justice distorted; he has listened to his conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded men, so that they gather about him, and together, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, they make a new period in history.

Jane Addams

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

Jane Addams

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

Jane Addams

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.