Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Wilson

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

Colin Wilson

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

Colin Wilson

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

Claudia Schiffer

I actually don't meet very many men because they are, I guess, afraid to approach me or think that I'm from another planet.

Claudia Rankine

For instance, if you're a black guy and you got pulled over, and you didn't know that any other black men were being pulled over, you would constantly in the back of your head be thinking, "What did I do?" rather than, "I didn't do anything, these are just the conditions I live under."

Claudia Rankine

Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying.

Clare Boothe Luce

Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

Clare Boothe Luce

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

Clare Boothe Luce

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

Clare Boothe Luce

A great man is one sentence.

Clare Boothe Luce

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Clare Boothe Luce

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

Claude Bernard

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

Claude Bernard

The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea that he pursues; he no longer hears the cries of the animals, no longer sees the flowing blood, he sees only his idea: organisms that hide from him problems that he wants to discover. He doesn't feel that he is in a horrible carnage; under the influence of a scientific idea, he pursues with delight a nervous filament inside stinking and livid flesh that for any other person would be an object of disgust and horror.

Claude Bernard

Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by pursuing chimerical problems and theories which are false. In physical science, which is more advanced than biology, we might still cite men of science who make great discoveries by relying on false theories. It seems, indeed, a necessary weakness of our mind to be able to reach truth only across a multitude of errors and obstacles.

Dalai Lama

I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.

Dalai Lama

I feel many problems that we are facing, are man-made problems, we have too much emphasis on this secondary thing, forgetting our foundation. At foundation, we are the same human being and we are sharing the same planet. Six billion human beings' future is my future and my future is never separate from the future of six billion human beings.

Dalai Lama

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Dodie Smith

How can a young man like to wear a beard?

Dolly Parton

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

Dolly Parton

I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.

Dolly Parton

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

Dinah Shore

I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.

Diogenes

Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.

Diogenes

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Diogenes

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

Diogenes

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Diogenes

When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves .

Diogenes

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

Diogenes

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Diogenes

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Diogenes

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Dick Francis

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.