Quotes with man

Quotes 401 till 420 of 4532.

  • Carolyn Wells A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
    - +
     0
  • Henry Louis Mencken A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
    - +
     0
  • John Adams A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
    - +
     0
  • Robert Frost A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Lord Melbourne A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
    - +
     0
  • Aesop A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Keith A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
    - +
     0
  • Elbert Hubbard A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
    - +
     0
  • Finley Peter Dunne A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
    - +
     0
  • Aldous Huxley A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • George Orwell A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust".
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • Bruno Rossi A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.
    - +
     0
  • Cass Sunstein A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
    - +
     0
  • Joseph Roux A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
    - +
     0
  • William Shenstone A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.
    Essay on man, manners and things (1769)
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
    - +
     0
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
    - +
     0
  • William Blake A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
    - +
     0
  • Erasmus Darwin A fool... is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
    Letter (1792)
    Erasmus Darwin
    English physician, grandfather of Charles Darwin (1731 - 1802)
    - +
     0
  • E. M. Forster A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Branch Rickey A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
    - +
     0
All man famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 21)