Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Linda Ronstadt

Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected.

Jo Brand

You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

What we've done, we've tried to let people know that these are the things on the menu that'll get you in and out.

Alexander Lukashenko

If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault.

Alexander MacLaren

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Alexander MacLaren

That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.

Alexander MacLaren

If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.

Alexander MacLaren

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.

Alexander MacLaren

Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

Alexander MacLaren

No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.

Alexander McCall Smith

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

Alexander Pope

For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

Alexander Pope

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

Alexander Pope

Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

Alexander Pope

So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Alexander Pope

Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

Alexander Pope

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

Alexander Pope

Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

Alexander Pope

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

Alexander Pope

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Alexander Pope

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Alexander Pope

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

Alexander Pope

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

Alexander Pope

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

Alexander Pope

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

Alexander Pope

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

Alexander Pope

Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

Alexander Pope

Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

Alexander Pope

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.