Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Swift

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

Jonathan Swift

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

Jonathan Swift

Desponding Phyllis was endu'd With ev'ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near; Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear: If o'er against her you were plac'd She durst not look above your Waist

Jonathan Swift

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

Jonathan Swift

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Jonathan Swift

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

Jonathan Rosen

Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.

Jonathan Nolan

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

Jonathan Nolan

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

Jonathan Raban

When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent.

Jonathan Safran Foer

But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

Jonathan Safran Foer

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

Jonathan Safran Foer

... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and then, 'To try to live,' he gave me a look and asked if I would consider that business or pleasure, I wrote, 'Neither.' 'For how long do you plan to mourn and try to live?' I wrote, 'For the rest of my life.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

Naomi Wolf

There is this giant void in the culture about women in that age group as heroines, as romantic beings, as sexual beings and as creative beings, and there's not that void for men. Women don't stop being all those things as their lives continue into those decades.

Naomi Wolf

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

Naomi Wolf

Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: "a nip," a "tummy tuck."...Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body. If we don't start to speak of it as serious, the millennium of the man-made woman will be upon us, and we will have had no choice.

Naomi Wolf

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

Naomi Wolf

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women.

Narendra Modi

We do not need men and women from other planets to develop India. Our people, our youth are skilled.

Narendra Modi

This budget is a Sanjeevani (new life) and an Arunoday (sunrise) for the last man in the line. This budget converts hopes and aspirations of the people into trust. It adds a new ray of hope for the poor and downtrodden sections of the society.

Napoleon Hill

FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.

Napoleon Hill

Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.

Napoleon Hill

No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

Napoleon Hill

Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.

Napoleon Hill

Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations.

Napoleon Hill

What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

Napoleon Hill

It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.

Napoleon Hill

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

Napoleon Hill

Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

Napoleon Hill

The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

Napoleon Hill

Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.