Quotes 121 till 140 of 2063.
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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wideawake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.
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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
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A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
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A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profits he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.
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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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A moral, sensible, and wellbred man, I will not affront me, and no other can.
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A neck God made for other use Than strangling in a string.
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A nice thing about being at Disney is that these movies can develop into a presence in theme parks and become something real, or maybe get a sequel or tell other stories.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847) -
A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
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