Quotes 5381 till 5400 of 5500.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
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Backbite. To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.
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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
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But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death ... and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.
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Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
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Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
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Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man - and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
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Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
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Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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