Quotes with plains-man

Quotes 3821 till 3840 of 4539.

  • William Shakespeare This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
    - +
     0
  • Richard of Saint Victor This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great grace without tremendous labor and burning desire.
    - +
     0
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
    - +
     0
  • Francis Bacon This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
    - +
     0
  • Karl Kraus This is something that I cannot get over - that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Wolfe This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
    - +
     0
  • Cat Stevens This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
    - +
     0
  • St. Augustine of Hippo This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
    - +
     0
  • Carol Ann Duffy This is the word tightrope. Now imagine
    a man, inching across it in the space
    between our thoughts. He holds our breath. There is no word net. You want him to fall, don't you?
    I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
    The word applause is written all over him.
    Source: Standing Female Nude (1985)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
    - +
     0
  • Aristophanes This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
    Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land
    Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
    - +
     0
  • Adelbert von Chamisso This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
    - +
     0
  • Desiderius Erasmus This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Hicks Those guys were in hog heaven, man. They had a weapons catalog, What's G-12 do, Tommy? Says here it destroys everything but the fillings in their teeth, helps pay for the war effort. Well, shit, pull that one up! Pull up G-12, please. ] ...Cool. What's G-13 do?
    Source: Relentless
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
    - +
     0
  • Henry Thomas Buckle Those minute critics who seem to think that when they detect the occasional errors of a great man, they in some degree reduce him to their own level.
    Source: History of civilization II, 314
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    English historian (1821 - 1862)
    - +
     0
  • William Shakespeare Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
    - +
     0
  • John Keats Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
    - +
     0
  • Alexis de Tocqueville Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
    - +
     0
  • Eliza Cook Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis ''good works'' make the man.
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
    - +
     0
  • Edward Dahlberg Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
    - +
     0
  • Bertrand Russell Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
    - +
     0
All plains-man famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 192)