Quotes of: Great-man Keyword

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

Mark Twain

A wise man accepts defeat, a fool accepts to defeat

Norbert Harms

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Michel de Montaigne

I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.

Andy Garcia

I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.

James Nesbitt

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Roy L. Smith

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Jerome Cady

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

William Beveridge

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Irving Babbitt

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

Frank A. Clark

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Michelangelo

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

H. L. Mencken

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

Sean Connery

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Georges Bernanos

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Leon Blum

In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

Maura Tierney

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Benjamin Franklin

God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

Frank Wedekind

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

John Barth