Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Adornetto

Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done-now I'm stressed." "You can't! You're the stable one!

Alexander the Great

As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

Alexander the Great

Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

Alexander Theroux

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

Alexander Theroux

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

Alexander Pushkin

In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

Alexander Smith

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

Alexander Smith

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

Alexander Smith

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

Alexander Smith

The only thing a man knows is himself.

Alexander Smith

The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

Alexander Smith

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

Alexander Smith

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

Alexander Smith

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Alexander Smith

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

Alexander Smith

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

Alexander Smith

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

Albert Einstein

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

Albert Einstein

Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort

Albert Einstein

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

Albert Einstein

Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

Ali Smith

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality.

Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.

A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

A man is hid under his tongue.

The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.

Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born.