Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherwood Anderson

Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.

Sherwood Anderson

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.

Sherwood Anderson

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod.

Sherwood Anderson

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

Sherry Argov

Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.

Sherry Argov

Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact".

Sherry Argov

Relationship Principle 6 Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential.

Sherry Argov

There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get.

Sherry Argov

When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there.

Sherry Argov

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

Sherry Argov

Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves

Sherry Argov

When a man likes you, he will be interested in finding out what you like. If he makes you happy, he feels more secure. Everything men do is intended to impress women.

Sherry Argov

Men control the world, but women control the men.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Good tuna-fish sandwiches; he’s the tallest man I’ve ever seen! (Pam)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

See how exciting Anthropology is? He’s a leading expert in ancient Greece. Now you should all change your majors so that you can ogle men like him all day long. Or better yet, uncover naked male statues. (Tory) Was that necessary? (Acheron) Hey, I live to recruit students for the department. If I can make you good for something, then by golly I’m going to do it. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m an executioner, Leta, hence my Demon nickname. They send me in to take the heads off people and gods who’ve stepped over the line, usually only because someone has PMS. You want justice, Themis’s office is down the hall on the left. You want death and dismemberment, I’m your man…or rather god. (Deimos)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m a professional bodyguard. (Leta) Yeah, right. (Aiden) Nope. All true. I know seventy-two ways to kill a man and sixty-nine of them look like an accident. (Leta)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

How many more are there like you? (Maggie) Enough to make the cast of a Cecil B. DeMille film look like a two-man opera. (Wren)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is of great importance that the laws by which the contracts of so numerous and so useful a body of men as the sailors are supposed to be guided, should not be overturned.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the discretion to be exercised on such an occasion is not a wild but a sound discretion, and to be confined within those limits within which an honest man, competent to discharge the duties of his office, ought to confine himself. And that discretion will be best exercised by not deviating from the rules laid down by our predecessors; for the practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m not as good as a man as you are, Sundown. I find it hard to give an enemy my back under any circumstance.” – Ren “Oh, I didn’t say I was giving her my back. I’m not lacking all my noodle sense. But I’m not holding a grudge neither. Sometimes you just got to let the rattlesnake lay in the sun.” – Sundown “Men? You do know I’m standing in this little box with you and can hear every word?” – Abigail “We know. I merely don’t care.” – Ren

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You have no idea how much it bothers me to know that I was the man she meant to kill tonight and now I have to protect her.” – Ren “Yeah, well, she tried to kill me, too, and I got over it.” – Sundown

Sherrilyn Kenyon

A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I am a socially akward man-dork"-Nick

Sherrilyn Kenyon

On Mardi Gras, she got his soul back and freed him. (Wulf) Oh man, that sucks. Now he’s going to have to join Kyrian on the geriatric patrol. (Chris)

Terry Pratchett

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

Tenzing Norgay

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.

Terence

As many opinions as there are men; each a law to himself.

Terence

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Nikita Khrushchev

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.