Quotes of: Straight-man Keyword

What a fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.

American

A satisfied man is happy even if he is poor; a dissatisfied man is sad even if he is rich.

Chinese

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Chinese

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

Chinese

A young woman with an old man is really someone else's woman.

Chinese

When the poor man sets a trap only his dog gets caught.

Cameroonian

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

English

The old man looks death in the eye, the young man keeps him behind his back.

Estonian

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

French

The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.

German

You have to put a young girl onto an old man.

Greek

To quarrel with a man of good speech is better than to converse with a man who does not speak well.

Sanskrit

A young woman is to an old man the horse that he rides to hell.

Spanish

A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

Yiddish

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

A Clockwork Orange

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Marcus Garvey

The source of man is in man,and when a man dies,millions of men die in him.

Michael Bassey Johnson

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

Charles M. Schulz

Sisters, if you got a good man, honor him.

Mo'Nique

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Edmund Burke

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Henry Ward Beecher