Quotes with man-knowledge

Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 5049.

  • Jules Renard I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • George Bernard Shaw I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • Vince Lombardi I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Burt Lancaster I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
    Burt Lancaster
    American actor and producer (1913 - 1994)
    - +
     0
  • Assata Shakur I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy!
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ezra Pound I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
    - +
     0
  • Anthony Doerr I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
    - +
     0
  • James R. Cook I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
    James R. Cook
     
    - +
     0
  • Alexander the Great I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
    - +
     0
  • Oliver Cromwell I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
    - +
     0
  • Bryan Robson I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Goldwyn I hate a man who always says ''yes'' to me. When I say ''no'' I like a man who also says ''no.''
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Oscar Wilde I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Alan Dundes I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
    - +
     0
  • Lord Nelson I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
    Lord Nelson
     
    - +
     0
  • Woodrow Wilson I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Johnson I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
    - +
     0
  • Alexander Mackenzie I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.
    Alexander Mackenzie
    Canadian politician
    - +
     0
  • Lord George Byron I have always laid it down as a maxim - and found it justified by experience - that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex - but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
    - +
     0
All man-knowledge famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 87)