Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth I

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

Elizabeth I

If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

Elizabeth I

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

Elizabeth I

I would not open windows into men's souls.

Elizabeth I

I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.

Eli Wallach

No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never be up there. I'm a journeyman actor. I didn't think about stardom.

Elias Canetti

It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest

Elias Canetti

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

Elias Canetti

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Elias Canetti

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Elias Canetti

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight

Elias Canetti

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

Eli Roth

I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

B. F. Skinner

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

B. C. Forbes

Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.

B. C. Forbes

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

B. C. Forbes

Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as individuals, utilize our principal by-product? Our principal by-product is, of course, our leisure time. Many years of observation forces the conclusion that a man's success or failure in life is determined as much by how he acts during his leisure as by how he acts during his work hours. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how he is likely to spend the latter part of his life.

B. C. Forbes

There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.

B. C. Forbes

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

B. C. Forbes

Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook

B. C. Forbes

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

B. C. Forbes

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

Asafa Powell

I am still the fastest man on earth.

ASAP Rocky

I know that women are smarter than men. I don't wanna sound like I'm on a bandwagon for chicks but I do love 'em, can't front. Women are smarter than men. I know I gotta lot of chicks up my sleeve but you guys are twice as good.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Women can do anything men can do, but often have more sense than even to be interested.

Ashleigh Brilliant

It's well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement.

Ashleigh Brilliant

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

Ashleigh Brilliant

MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS! Someone's coming who wants to reason with us.

Ashleigh Brilliant

There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.

Arthur Keith

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.