Quotes of: Decent-man Keyword

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

Lyn Nofziger

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

Pope John XXIII

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Terry Pratchett

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

Will Chase

He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

Earl Wilson

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

Frank Dane

He's an intelligent man, but it takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every man has a wild beast within him.

Frederick the Great

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Franz Schubert

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

Graydon Carter

The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.

Criss Jami

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

If there is one thing above all others a successful man should know, it is when to stop.

Coenus

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Charles Peguy

Greater love hath no man then this, that a man lay down his life for his friends

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Aft the more honour, forward the better man

Horatio Nelson

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Herbert Spencer

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

Israel Horovitz

An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him.

Ilyas Kassam