Quotes with man-on-the-street

Quotes 4321 till 4340 of 4652.

  • Ernest Becker When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
    - +
     0
  • Henry Fielding When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Taylor Bradford When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
    - +
     0
  • Carter G. Woodson When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • Winston Churchill When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
    - +
     0
  • Russell Hoban When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
    - +
     0
  • C. P. Snow When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
    Public Affairs
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
    - +
     0
  • Ann Coulter When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Charles Dickens When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
    - +
     0
  • Oscar Wilde Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Harry S. Truman Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
    - +
     0
  • Washington Irving Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
    - +
     0
  • W. M. Thackeray Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
    - +
     0
  • Rita Rudner Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
    Rita Rudner
    American comedian writer (1953 - )
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
    - +
     0
  • William James Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • Henry Louis Mencken Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
    - +
     0
  • Seneca Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
    - +
     0
  • Marcus Aurelius Where a man can live, he can also live well.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
    - +
     0
  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
    - +
     0
All man-on-the-street famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 217)