Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meryl Streep

I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when their wives are higher on the corporate ladder than they find themselves. I think that often is an issue.

Doris Lessing

You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous and self-indulgent, like the relationships between women when there are no men around. They make each other presents, and they have little feasts, and nobody punishes anyone else. This is the female way of going along when there are no men about or when men are not in the ascendant.

Bjork

I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.

Dogen

Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

It's always the same - all men and women want to be sexy.

Elie Metchnikoff

Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions.

Marianne Williamson

We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.

When Randy was rescued, we weren't sure of our miracle. These men are responsible." ()

William Shakespeare

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes

Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

Shawn Amos

Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move.

Every time I talk to people they mention the 2004-05 season.

Bill Rodgers

But running is a year-round sport and you train for all conditions, so you sort of have to be mentally prepared, physically sort of used to it.

Henry David Thoreau

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.

Piers Morgan

Most of the men that sue in Hollywood are all about 5' 2'. They wake up every day, know they're tiny and feel very angry about it, so they go out and sue people.

Coco Chanel

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Chief Joseph

I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

Patti Stanger

Oprah didn't want to put me on the show for a really long time because she thought I was more for the men than for the women.

To know men is to be wise; to know oneself is to be illumined

We need to stop our mental mistakes, all the mental errors, and have some confidence. We have to know that we can do it.

Ludwig von Mises

A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way.

Ludwig von Mises

If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. But all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.

Ludwig von Mises

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

Ludwig von Mises

What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest.

Ludwig von Mises

You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.; you know that all men today enjoy a higher standard of living than your ancestors did before the age of capitalism. But how do you know that you are the one out of ten who would have lived in the absence of capitalism? The mere fact that you are living today is proof that capitalism has succeeded, whether or not you consider your own life very valuable.

Ludwig von Mises

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

Ludwig von Mises

Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part of man. It is created and increased by saving and maintained by the abstention from dissaving.

Ludwig von Mises

Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

Ludwig von Mises

It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.

Ludwig von Mises

It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.

Ludwig von Mises

The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.

Ludwig von Mises

What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need.

Ludwig von Mises

Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.