Quotes with man-knowledge

Quotes 2161 till 2180 of 5049.

  • E. B. White It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • John Maynard Keynes It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Barry Gibb It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Havelock Ellis It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Upton Sinclair It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
    Upton Sinclair
    American writer (1878 - 1968)
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Alice Meynell It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Emma Goldman It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • George S. Patton It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Barbra Streisand It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Angela Carter It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Gertrude Stein It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Anthony Trollope It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Gregory Nunn It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
    Gregory Nunn
    American golf player (1955 - )
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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