Quotes of: Decent-man Keyword

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

The Wise Man's Fear

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

The Wise Man's Fear

. . . if you can't see the good man he is, you need to unscrew them eyeballs of yours and try on a different pair.

To Win Her Heart

But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

The War Poems

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto

You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum!

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

As You Like It

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

Aaron Siskind

They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

Craig Ferguson

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

George MacDonald

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Moliere

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

Thomas Mann

Smoke rose from the barrel of the gun like a serpent crawling up from its wicker basket

Family Man - A Short Story of Murder

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

God’s Word is the only thing that can satisfy your spiritual thirst.

A Man After God's Own Heart--A Devotional

A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.

Hints for Lovers

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Hamlet

Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

Joe Walsh

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Joseph Conrad

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

Joseph Conrad