Quotes of: Himself Keyword

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

Henny Youngman

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.

Kevin Eubanks

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Thomas Jefferson

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

Thomas Aquinas

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Mark Twain

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

John Stuart Mill

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

Paul Wellstone

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

F. Sionil Jose

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

Francois Rabelais

John Laroche: [about himself] The smartest guy I know, huh?

Adaptation.

Mr. Witherspoon: [to himself] Another Roosevelt? Oh, dear, dear.

Arsenic and Old Lace

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Ambrose Bierce

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Arthur Eddington

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Jean de la Bruyere

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.

Thorstein Veblen