Quotes of: Straight-man Keyword

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Thomas Wolfe

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.

Paul Shaffer

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Owen D. Young

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Channing Pollock

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

John Major

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

William Wilberforce

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

Bert Williams

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Malcolm Forbes

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

Sidney Poitier

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Maimonides

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

William James

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

Ramakrishna

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Victor Hugo

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

Virgil

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.

Adolf Hitler

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

Charles Baudelaire

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Dean Acheson

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

James Russell Lowell