Quotes of: Sick-man Keyword

I am dead. It is as if everybody were dead. Let the man left behind shut the door if he wants to.

Maltese

The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry; and for the poor, when he has something to eat.

Mexican

If ye had as little money as ye have manners, ye would be the poorest man of all your kin.

Scottish

I grew up among wise men and found that there is nothing better for man than silence.

Sierra Leonean

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

Robert Mondavi

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

Corita Kent

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Robert E. Lee

A man is old when he takes the whole night to do what he used to do all night long.

Chinese

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Chinese

When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so.

Czech

Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.

Mongolian

When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.

Russian

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

Spanish

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too bus to take care of his tools.

Traditional

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully. ("Three O'Clock")

The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: Rear Window and Other Stories / I Married a Dead Man / Waltz into Darkness

We have developed communications systems to permit man on earth to talk with man on the moon. Yet mother often cannot talk with daughter, father to son, black to white, labour with management or democracy with communism

Communication: Methods for All Media

I strike fear into you because I am a man?" "It isn't funny." "I do not laugh. It is a sad thing, yes, that your husband is a man. A very terrible thing.

Comanche Moon

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers.

The Color Master: Stories

My lady Silk, remember that a man always gains in stature any way he chooses to associate with a woman - including adultery...but in her association with a man, a woman is always in danger of being diminished.

Changes: A Love Story

In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing at all; to all intents and purposes I don't exist. I am just a Vox et preaterea nihil.

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