Quotes of: Ordinary-men Keyword

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

Thomas Hobbes

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

Thomas Huxley

It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

Todd Haynes

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

Terence

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

Ted Turner

Why do men think they know how to cook outside when they haven't the smallest idea how to go about it indoors?

Terry Wogan

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Vincent Van Gogh

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Voltaire

I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.

Waris Ahluwalia

Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

Warren Farrell

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

Whitney Houston

If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.

will.i.am

What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

William Lamb Melbourne

But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.

Wayne Newton

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

William Penn

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.

William Graham Sumner

Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.

William Watson