No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
~By Hunter S. Thompson ~
Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
~By Rachel Hunter ~
I'm the guy, I'm kind of like the, uh, Everyman, so I think people just relate to that.
~By Kato Kaelin ~
And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel.
~By Arthur Rock ~
The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
~By Marcel Duchamp ~
Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.
~By Jay Inslee ~
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
~By Karl Shapiro ~
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
~By Mariska Hargitay ~
The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
~By William James ~
A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the meaning of life.
~By C. Kilmer Myers ~
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Today, many fans are saddened and upset by the lack of integrity they see in professional boxing that has significantly weakened the sport - the most deplorable problem of which is the treatment of the sport's athletes.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.
~By Rick Moranis ~
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
~By Hilaire Belloc ~
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
~By Jack Bowman ~
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
~By Plato ~
I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
~By Barry Sheene ~
We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.
~By Peter Singer ~
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
~By James Freeman Clarke ~
I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.
~By Michael Tippett ~
I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.
~By Roman Polanski ~
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
~By Mary Baker Eddy ~
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.
~By Jim Jeffords ~
In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man.
~By John Philpot Curran ~
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
~By Charles Kingsley ~
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
~By Alain Rene Le Sage ~
Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.
~By Michael McCaul ~
The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.
~By Anatoly Chubais ~
Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
~By John Betjeman ~
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place.
~By Tina Yothers ~
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~
Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.
~By John Astin ~
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
~By Socrates ~
We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.
~By Willard Libby ~
Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.
~By Mary McGrory ~
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
~By Abu Bakr ~
I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.
~By James Ellroy ~
The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.
~By David F. Houston ~
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
I think there has been a lack of full cooperation from too many people in the Muslim community.
~By Peter King ~
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
~By Hesiod ~
I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.
~By Patty Duke ~
No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.
~By Lee Child ~
When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
~By Golda Meir ~
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'
~By Graham Swift ~
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.
~By Edward Kennedy ~
I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.
~By Christopher Atkins ~
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.
~By Esther Williams ~
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
~By Ida B. Wells ~
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
~By Mother Teresa ~
In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.
~By Dave Barry ~
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
~By Thomas Malthus ~
There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.
~By Tom Leykis ~
Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.
~By Rob Lowe ~
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
~By George Orwell ~
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
~By P. G. Wodehouse ~
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase.
~By Richard Burr ~
I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
~By Meg Tilly ~
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
~By Susan Sontag ~
I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.
~By Victoria Beckham ~
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.
~By Nancy McKeon ~
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.
~By Bruce Kent ~
I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have.
~By John Barton ~
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
Desire is the very essence of man.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.
~By Marilu Henner ~
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
~By William Shakespeare ~
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
~By Gore Vidal ~
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
~By Nikola Tesla ~
I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.
~By Kristi Noem ~
Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well.
~By Harvey Pekar ~
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
~By Doug Larson ~
I'm going to try to pull a Natalie Portman. Natalie went to Harvard while shooting 'Star Wars'. I don't know how she did it. I want to have lunch with her and ask her - that seems like a bunch of stress right there.
~By Selena Gomez ~
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
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