Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Johnson

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

Beverley Nichols

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Betty White

I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!

Betty White

I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.

Beyonce Knowles

Men and women balance each other out and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other.

Bernie Mac

You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.

Bernie Mac

I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.

Bernie Mac

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.

Bernie Mac

It took me a long time to get to where I'm at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.

Edward Heath

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.

Edward Gorey

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

Edward Hoagland

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

Edward Hoagland

If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have to transpose the faith in nature which is inherent in the profession to a faith in man-if necessary, man alone in the world.

Edward Gibbon

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

Edward Gibbon

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

Edward Gibbon

Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.

Edward Gibbon

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .

Edward Gibbon

At that time the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria was filled by Theophilus, the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad man, whose hands were alternately polluted with gold and with blood.

Edward Gibbon

But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects which dissented from the catholic church were afflicted and oppressed by the triumph of Christianity. Constantine easily believed that the heretics, who presumed to dispute his opinions or to oppose his commands, were guilty of the most absurd and criminal obstinacy; and that a seasonable application of moderate severities might save those unhappy men from the danger of an everlasting condemnation.

Edmond de Goncourt

Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.

Edith Head

many women dress for men before marriage, and for women after marriage ...

Edith Head

Just imagine dressing the two handsomest men in the world, and then getting this!

Edith Stein

We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.

Edmond Rostand

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

Edmond Rostand

My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

Edith Sitwell

I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

Edith Sitwell

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Edith Wharton

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

Edith Wharton

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Edith Wharton

When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.

Eddie Montgomery

We'll go back and listen to some 70's music. Just everything. I guess the main thing is that we listen to creative guys, male or female either one. Just people that have got great talent and we're able to say, 'man, that is unbelievable.

Eddie Murphy

Apparently every man was told to bring three women with them. Sounds like a ho-down.