Quotes of: Ordinary-men Keyword

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Lord Byron

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

Larry Elder

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Le Corbusier

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Mikhail Bakunin

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

Maureen Reagan

I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.

Sharon Gless

I like 'Mad Men,' and I think 'The Killing' is pretty great too. I like 'Brothers & Sisters.'

Betsy Brandt

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Bertrand Russell

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Henry Fielding

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Henry Fielding

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Luc de Clapiers

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Orison Swett Marden

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