Quotes with gentle-man

Quotes 2461 till 2480 of 4582.

  • Friedrich Nietzsche Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Maurice Chevalier Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
    Maurice Chevalier
    French actor and comedian (1888 - 1972)
    - +
     0
  • Orison Swett Marden Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
    Orison Swett Marden
    American inspirational author (1848 - 1924)
    - +
     0
  • Stephen Leacock Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
    - +
     0
  • J. B. Priestley Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
    - +
     0
  • Edgar W. Howe Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
    - +
     0
  • Norman Macewan Many a man never fails because he never tries.
    - +
     0
  • Jim Backus Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
    Jim Backus
    American radio, television, film, and voice (1913 - 1989)
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Franklin Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
    - +
     0
  • B. C. Forbes Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
    - +
     0
  • Catherine Drinker Bowen Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Barton Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
    - +
     0
  • Norman Douglas Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
    - +
     0
  • Elbert Hubbard Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
    - +
     0
  • Francis Bacon Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
    - +
     0
  • George Santayana Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
    - +
     0
  • Marcus Aurelius Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
    - +
     0
  • Sir George Jessel Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
    - +
     0
  • Burt Reynolds Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
    - +
     0
  • George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
    - +
     0
All gentle-man famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 124)