Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Storr

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

Antoine Rivarol

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

Antoine Rivarol

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

Antoine Rivarol

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

Antoine Rivarol

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

Antoine Rivarol

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

Antoine Fuqua

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You're not a man, you're a mushroom!

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

Bill Vaughan

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

Bill Vaughan

The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.

Bill Vaughan

The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

Bill Vaughan

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

Bill Vaughan

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

Bill Vaughan

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

Bill Bowerman

The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.

Bill Burr

Gold diggers are the wife beaters of men!

Bill Hicks

I used to drink, I did. I had to quit. Man, I was an embarrassing drunk. I'd get pulled over by the cops, I'd be so drunk I'd be out dancing in their lights thinking I'd made it to the next club.

Bertrand Russell

It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.

I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.

It is a sad time in our little town. He was our doctor, our mentor and our friend.

Ridley Scott

I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem.

John Milton

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men

Just being around these men and women and seeing what they're doing for all of us so we can sleep a little better.

Jennifer Taylor

People have had that old mentality that (child care) is just like a baby-sitting service.

Saeb Erekat

start thinking in the mentality of a partner.

Some men are all right in their place if they only knew the right places.

I woke up the next morning about 8 o'clock mentally ready to play. The same thing with Sunday morning, waking up early. The mindset was to get up, get the day started and go to the game.