Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ana Castillo

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

Ana Castillo

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

Ana Castillo

To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little.

Amy Waldman

In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could drown, the absence of talk as constricting as the absence of air.

Amy Winehouse

Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

Alyssa Milano

Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.

Alphonse de Lamartine

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

Alphonse de Lamartine

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

Alphonse de Lamartine

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

Alphonse de Lamartine

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

Alphonse de Lamartine

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

Allen West

These Planned Parenthood women, the Code Pink women, and all of these women have been neutering American men and bringing us to the point of this incredible weakness...We are not going to have our men become subservient.

Allen West

I am a black male who grew up in the inner city of Atlanta and no one ever followed me in a mall. I don't recall any doors clicking when I crossed the street. And I never had anyone clutching their handbag when I got on an elevator. I guess having two awesome parents who taught me to be a respectful young man paid dividends.

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.