Quotes of: Ordinary-man Keyword

I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.

Claire Tomalin

For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.

Howard Staunton

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

Henry Wotton

The governments and their policies have failed, the church is the last hope of the common man, I value a church that is a home for all.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.

Jennifer Aniston

Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.

James Lane Allen

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

John Adams

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse.

Emil Cioran

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

Ernest Hello

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

Elizabeth I

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

Eddie Murphy

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Benjamin Franklin

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Benjamin Harrison

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Ben Jonson

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Bryant H. McGill

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Blaise Pascal

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

Brad Renfro

The rich will make temples for Siva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head the cupola of gold.

Basava

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

Baruch Spinoza