Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Ehrenreich

Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

Avi

There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

Austin Phelps

A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.

Ava Gardner

Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the total could fill a suitcase. Every single day during our relationship, no matter where in the world I was, I'd get a telegram from Frank saying he loved me and missed me. He was a man who was deseperate for companionship and love. Can you wonder that he always had mine!

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.

The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

Ashley Cole

My worst fears were confirmed as Thierry and I sat in the centre circle after the final whistle. His name was sung from the rooftops, while my contribution was recognised by a deafening silence. It was like I was the invisible man

Ashley Olsen

I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

Ashley Montagu

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

Ashley Montagu

The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

Ashley Montagu

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.

Ashley Montagu

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

Ashley Montagu

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

Ashley Judd

When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Berthold Auerbach

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

Berthold Auerbach

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

Berthold Auerbach

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

Benjamin Graham

The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.

Benjamin Graham

Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.

Bruce Robinson

I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.

Bruce Sterling

(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute

E. O. Wilson

She's never going to be perfect. And neither are the men.