Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

We are for religion against the religions.

Victor Hugo

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

Victor Hugo

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Victor Hugo

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Victor Hugo

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

Victor Hugo

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

Victor Hugo

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Victor Hugo

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Victor Hugo

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Dorothea Dix

Man is not made better by being degraded.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

Doris Lilly

Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.

Doris Lessing

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

Doris Lessing

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.