Quotes of: Straight-man Keyword

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

Fabrice Luchini

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Edward Steichen

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

Fred Astaire

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Felix Frankfurter

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

Franz Kafka

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

Giordano Bruno

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

Carl Sandburg

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Horatio Nelson

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Horace

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

Henny Youngman

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

John Adams

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

James Boswell

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

John Bunyan

That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.

Jack Coleman

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

Diogenes of Sinope

As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.

Edward Abbey

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

Earl Derr Biggers

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

E. W. Howe

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Billy Graham