Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Pericles

The late, great Janis Joplin could drink ten men under the table, then sing loud enough to shake the teeth out of their head.

Shawn Amos

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

Andy Wachowski

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Baruch Spinoza

Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.

Carson Daly

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Dalai Lama

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

Ernest Renan

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

Hannah Cowley

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

H. L. Mencken

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

John Berry

I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.

Josh Radnor

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Pearl S. Buck

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Samuel Johnson

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

Stephanie Mills

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Sophocles

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

Thomas Huxley

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Jean Anouilh

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Emile Zola