Quotes of: Straight-man Keyword

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Booker T. Washington

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Brigham Young

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

Charles Bukowski

There is no need to boast of your accomplishments and what you can do. A great man is known, he needs no introduction.

CherLisa Biles

A successful man never allows his faulty of discrimination and judgement to be distributed by the rising tides of his emotions.

Gian Kumar

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

George MacDonald

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

George Mason

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Gustav Mahler

A wise man always has something to say, whereas a fool always needs to say something.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

Two things a wise man never discloses to the public; his money and his women.

Habeeb Akande

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?

Henry Ford

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

Hal Holbrook

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Jose Marti

If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can

Joni Mitchell

Aber glaubt mir, dass man Glück und Zuversicht selbst in Zeiten der Dunkelheit zu finden vermag. Man darf bloß nicht vergessen ein Licht leuchten zu lassen.

J.K. Rowling

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Colin Wilson

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

Craig Washington

Kernkraftwerke hinzustellen, ohne zu wissen, wo der Atommüll endlagert werden kann, ist wie das Abziehen einer Handgranate bevor man weiss, wo man sie hinwerfen wird.

Dieter Hildebrandt

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Carroll O'Connor

I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.

Lena Olin

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.

Carole Lombard