Quotes of: Straight-man Keyword

To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.

Waiting for Godot

Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube.

The Zürau Aphorisms

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

James A. Garfield

The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and prophecy of the corporate life of man.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

As a man gets older, his regrets changes. Especially when he's gotten into the Scotch.

The Forgotten Man

We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine-

The Man in the High Castle

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

Henry Miller

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

H. L. Mencken

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

H.L. Mencken

He was the ocean and I was the sand, i lived content in stillness and he washed a shore everytime, as a better man.

Nikki Rowe

Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.

Omar Dorsey

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

Peter Benchley

I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.

Pierce Brosnan

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

Placido Domingo

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

Polybius

When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous.

Robert Barnes

The immoral man always sees the moral man as immoral, just a way for him to justify his immorality.

Ricardo Derose

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.

Richelle E. Goodrich