Quotes of: Great-man Keyword

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

Cyril Connolly

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

George R. R. Martin

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

William James

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Frederick Henry Hedge

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

Edwin Louis Cole

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Fannie Hurst

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Friedrich Schiller

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

Fulton J. Sheen

Frieden erzielt man, wenn man folgende Eigenschaften innehat, nämlich Scham und Bescheidenheit, und wenn man sich von ihren Gegensätzen befreit, nämlich von Schamlosigkeit und Arroganz

Imam Mawlud

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

James A. Garfield

Prison Chaplain: Goodness is something to be chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

A Clockwork Orange

Malcolm: Who was that in the video? Caesar: A good man... like you.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Sam Spade: [to Effie] You're a good man, sister.

The Maltese Falcon

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

Beryl Bainbridge

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

Archibald MacLeish

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Bernard Baruch

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Michel De Certeau

Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is bus...

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

Paul Newman