Quotes of: Straight-man Keyword

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.

Horace Greeley

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Henry R. Luce

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

David Alan Grier

The rich man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven because he is already there.

David P. Gontar

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

David Hume

Man must learn that his current path is not suitable for Earth, and soon, Earth won't be suitable for Man.

Donald L. Hicks

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

Dean Inge

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Democritus

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book.

Jonathan Glazer

Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Samuel Smiles

Teddy: [crying] He ranked my old man!

Stand by Me

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

Bryant H. McGill

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Gregory Nunn

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pickford: Don, give the beer back, man! Don: I paid for the beer, man.

Dazed and Confused

Soz: Can I go home? Richard: Oh, you're going. Your going

Dead Man's Shoes

Matthew: Thank you for loving me.

Dead Man Walking