Quotes of: Decent-man Keyword

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Charles Eastman

Before 'Idol,' I was lost... Now, I've actually followed through with something. I am a better man for it!

Elliott Yamin

Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you're born a man, be a man. If a woman, be proud of being one. For, you're not the body, mind, this or that. "Ye are gods!" - human.

Fakeer Ishavardas

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

George Berkeley

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.

G.K. Chesterton

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

G.K. Chesterton

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Clarence Darrow

A Pagan is a man eminently convertible to Christianity. The post-Christian man differs from him as much as a divorcee differs from a virgin.

C.S. Lewis

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Confucius

This man was no servant. She looked up at him in acute agitation and knew: this man was now her master.

V.S. Carnes

Man acts as though he were the sharper and the master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Heidegger, Martin

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

Herbert Read

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Herodotus

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

Hesiod

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself.

Ilyas Kassam

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

Ian McShane

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

Irving Wallace