Quotes of: Measure-of-a-man Keyword

Dutton Peabody: As for you, Old Man: go West and grow young with the country!

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Man kann davon überzeugt sein, sich etwas zu wünschen - vielleicht jahrelang - solang man weiß, dass der Wunsch unerfüllbar ist. Steht man aber plötzlich vor der Möglichkeit, dass der Wunschtraum Wirklichkeit wird, dann wünscht man sich nur no...

Die unendliche Geschichte

There's poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without children, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without God, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without giving alms, is he not poor? If a m...

Michael Bassey Johnson

Manolo Ray: [referring to possible 3-5 years jail time] Hey, come on, man, it ain't that bad. Tony Montana: Hey, what the fuck you talkin', man? Manolo Ray: The jails in this country are like hotels, man. Tony Montana: You fuckin' kiddin' me, man? Ar...

Scarface

When a hundred men call a wise man a fool, then he becomes a fool.

Albanian

After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

American

What a fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.

American

A satisfied man is happy even if he is poor; a dissatisfied man is sad even if he is rich.

Chinese

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Chinese

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Chinese

A young woman with an old man is really someone else's woman.

Chinese

When the poor man sets a trap only his dog gets caught.

Cameroonian

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

English

The old man looks death in the eye, the young man keeps him behind his back.

Estonian

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

French

The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.

German

You have to put a young girl onto an old man.

Greek

To quarrel with a man of good speech is better than to converse with a man who does not speak well.

Sanskrit

A young woman is to an old man the horse that he rides to hell.

Spanish

A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

Yiddish

The tape measures and weighing scales of the Victorian brain scientists have been supplanted by powerful neuroimaging technologies, but there is still a lesson to be learned from historical examples such as these. State-of-the-art brain scanners offe...

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference