Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nature has poured forth all things for the common use of all men. And God has ordained that all things should be produced that there might be food in common for all, and that the earth should be in the common possession of all. Nature created common rights, but usurpation has transformed them into private rights.

The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise himself from his sins [in baptism (Col. 2:11-12)] so that he can be saved . . . for no one ascends into the kingdom of heaven except through the sacrament of baptism . . . "Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God"

If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.

Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.

As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man.

Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not [even] the infant.

It is not the ambassador, it is not the messenger, but the Lord Himself that saveth His people. The Lord remaineth alone, for no man can be partner with God in forgiving sins; this office belongs solely to Christ, who taketh away the sins of the world.

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

Adam Clayton

The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.

Adam Clayton

Mix a conviction with a man and...

Adam Clayton

Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.

Adam Clayton

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

Banksy

This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me.

Bram Stoker

It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

Ben Jonson

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

Aristophanes

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

Laura Schlessinger

Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Jean Fontaine

There is nothing useless to men of sense

Cheryl Cole

I just don't get boys; I don't really get men.

Samuel Butler

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Samuel Butler

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Samuel Butler

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Samuel Butler

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Samuel Butler

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

Samuel Butler

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Samuel Butler

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Samuel Butler

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Samuel Butler

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Samuel Butler

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

Samuel Butler

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.