Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

Alexander Pope

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

Alexander Pope

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

Alexander Pope

Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

Alexander Pope

A perfect woman's but a softer man.

Alexander Pope

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

Alexander Pope

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

Alexander Pope

Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

Alexander Pope

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

Alex Winter

One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.

Alexa Chung

On the same Australian trip, I brought back a pair [of Ugg] for my then boyfriend who was a photographer. He wore them all the time. He used to wear them with Levis twisted jeans and a vintage T-shirt. This is 2002. They looked great on him. I guess it takes a certain kind of man to pull them off but they have other ones that are less typical of this, I think.

Alex Kapranos

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

Alex Haley

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

Albert Murray

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

Alberta Hunter

I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

Albert Schweitzer

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

Albert Schweitzer

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

Albert Schweitzer

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

Albert Schweitzer

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

Albert Schweitzer

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

E. Howard Hunt

I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency.

E. P. Thompson

I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships... the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. ...And class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs

E. L. James

A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

E. L. James

Never trust a man who can dance.

E. Stanley Jones

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

E. Stanley Jones

When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

E. M. Forster

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

E. M. Forster

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

E. M. Forster

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

E. M. Forster

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

E. M. Forster

All men are equal - all men, that is, who possess umbrellas.