Quotes of: Ordinary-man Keyword

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

Voltaire

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Virgil

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

W. H. Auden

Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman.

Woody Allen

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

William J. H. Boetcker

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

William S. Burroughs

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

William McFee

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

William Graham Sumner

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

Zhuangzi

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Gilbert Parker

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Pearl Bailey

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

Thomas Aquinas

A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

Hallie Ephron

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Theodore Roosevelt

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

People think that the poor are not as wise as the rich, for if a man be wise, why is he poor?

African

The success of a man is through the soles of his feet, that of a woman is from her legs.

African

When a man says yes, his chi [personal god] says yes also.

African

Man is like a banana: when he leaves the bunch, he gets skinned.

American

A man cannot be a good physician if he has never been sick himself.

Arabian