Famous Quotes & Sayings

Romain Rolland

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Roger Federer

With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.

Ron Paul

Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.

Ron Paul

Politicians throughout history have tried to solve every problem conceivable to man, always failing to recognize that many of the problems we face result from previous so-called political solutions. Government cannot be the answer to every human ill. Continuing to view more government as the solution to problems will only make matters worse.

Ron Paul

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

Ron Paul

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

Sam Nunn

If you think you're a leader, and you look over your shoulder and there ain't nobody following you, man, you're just takin' a walk.

Sam Rayburn

Any man who will cheat for you will cheat against you.

Sam Rayburn

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

Sam Neill

I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once. There was a drunken man at the back of the auditorium that was shouting during a performance of a one man play, and it turned out later on that was Barry Crump and he was in a state of inebriation.

Sam Kinison

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

Sam Keen

Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want?

Sam Keen

The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry, our habit of work have produced our economic nemesis. Work made modern men great, but now threatens to usurp our souls, to inundate the earth in things and trash, to destroy our capacity to love and wonder.

Sam Keen

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

Sam Keen

Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely, and aperiodic; it is the inner cadence that brings fruit to ripeness, a woman to childbirth, a man to change the direction of his life.

Sam Keen

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.

Sacha Guitry

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

Sacha Guitry

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

Saadi

When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.

Saadi

Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.

Saadi

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.

Saadi

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

Saadi

The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.

Saadi

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

Saadi

The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.

Saadi

God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.

Rumi

And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.

Rumi

There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.

Roy Campanella

How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?

Roy Hattersley

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

Roy Blount, Jr.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

Rosalind Russell

The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.

Rory McIlroy

This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, 'I know you. You're that wee golfer, aren't you?' I say, 'Yeah, that's me.' They say, 'Keep it up, wee man.' It's very funny and that's why I want to stay here as long as possible.