Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Leach

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Give us a man of God's own mould Born to marshall his fellow-men; One whose fame is not bought and sold At the stroke of a politician's pen. Give us the man of thousands ten, Fit to do as well as to plan; Give us a rallying-cry, and then Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.

Edmund Hillary

[Derek] Shackleton was a man who - it's probably arrogant to say it - but he was a little bit like me. He undertook incredible dangers and carried on over the sea and over the ice and all the rest of it. He was a remarkable man.

Edmund Hillary

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

Edmund Hillary

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.

Edmund Spenser

For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.

Edmund Spenser

For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right

Edmund Spenser

Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

Edmund Spenser

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

Edmund Spenser

The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

Edmund Spenser

Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.

Edmund Spenser

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

Edmund Spenser

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.

Edmund Burke

I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the most helpless and impotent of mankind, and yet a violence... and a boistrousness in their resentment, as if they had been puffed up with the highest prosperity and power. they will not only be served, but it must also be in their own way and on their own principles and even in words and language that they liked... which renders it very difficult for a plain unguarded man as I am to have anything to do with them or their affairs.

Edmund Burke

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

Edmund Burke

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

Edmund Burke

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

Edmund Burke

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Edmund Burke

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Edmund Burke

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

Edmund Burke

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

Edmund Burke

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

Edmund Burke

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Edmund Burke

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Edmund Burke

There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

Edmund Burke

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

Edmund Burke

The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.

Edmund Burke

It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.

Edmund Burke

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

Edmund Burke

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

Edmund Burke

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.