Quotes 241 till 260 of 3090.
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A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
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A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
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A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
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A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
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A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
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A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.
Essay on man, manners and things (1769) -
A fool... is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
Letter (1792) -
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.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.
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A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal succes.
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A gentleman reading a poem that began with Where is that man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen? calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering No, demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden -
A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
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A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
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A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
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A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
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