Quotes of: Decent-man Keyword

He that marries a widow will have a dead man's head often thrown in his dish.

Scottish

To a man wine is like water is to the boat; it can carry him or guzzle him up.

Thai

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Turkish

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

Turkish

The heart of a man may be compared to a sausage; no one can tell exactly what's inside.

Yiddish

What a man thinks up for himself, his worst enemy couldn't wish for him.

Yiddish

Evil knows its time to end is soon at hand, hence why it is more than determined to succeed.

The Chain Saw Man Cometh

A wise man did not pour wildfire on a brazier. Instead he poured a fresh cup of wine.

A Clash of Kings

Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.

The Collector

A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.

The Confessions of a Misfit

God's anger is the toil and suffering of man. Man's anger is the love and worship of his enemy.

Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

Crime and Punishment

The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.

Crime and Punishment

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

The Catcher in the Rye

A man who becomes enchanted by the flower's fragrance stays only for a fleeting moment, but a man who comes because of love stays for a lifetime.

The Color of Water

If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.

Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

Any dog can bed down a lot of females. But only a real man can love one woman for a lifetime.

Doug and Carlie

A moral man is essentially dumbfounded when confronted by a man who is amoral—everything the latter does is met with a certain disbelief.

Dancer from the Dance

A man’s principles are his own. Man starts flip-flopping on what he believes based on outside influences and he may as well run for congress.

Dead On My Feet

Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Discourse on Method

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy