Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juvenal

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

Juvenal

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

Juvenal

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

Juvenal

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself. [Lat., Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di, Carior est illis homo quam sibi.]

Juvenal

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

Juvenal

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

Juvenal

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

Juvenal

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

Juvenal

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

Juvenal

The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.

Juvenal

There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.

Juvenal

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

Juvenal

Men who only live to eat.

Juvenal

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

Kendra Wilkinson

Every woman is sexy in her own way. It is up to men to step up and make women feel like they are No. 1 on that list. There is no such thing as perfection.

John Updike

I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.'

We are going to look to perfect the little things. Make no mental mistakes.

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

Blake Bailey

A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his times-the niceties of which (so complicated, so exquisitely intertwined) Max articulates with, well, Wallace-like lucidity and wit. Above all this is the story of a touching young man who insisted on being something better than simply the smartest person in the room.

Blaise Pascal

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Blaise Pascal

The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

Blaise Pascal

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

Blaise Pascal

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Blaise Pascal

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

Blaise Pascal

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

Blaise Pascal

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

Blaise Pascal

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

Blaise Pascal

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

Blaise Pascal

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal

For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?