Famous Quotes & Sayings

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Bernard Baruch

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Louis D. Brandeis

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

B. F. Skinner

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the fact a man in his 50s doesn't write the way a man in his 20s does - or he shouldn't.

Ben Jonson

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Kobe Bryant

We just didn't execute. We need to man up and not make excuses.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

Jackee Harry

I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.

Michael Servetus

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

Francis Beaumont

Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.

Robert Conrad

You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29.

I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

Henry Cabot Lodge

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

Eddie McGuire

We will read all the stories about how tough he was and all the rest of it, but I think he was a tremendously compassionate man as well.

Rajneesh

A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

Paul Shaffer

You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.'

Henry Drummond

No man can become a saint in his sleep.

Henry Drummond

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.

David Starr Jordan

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

Rob Johnson

When we switched to man we really rallied on defense.

Daniel Webster

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Charles Simmons

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Alexander Smith

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Alexander Smith

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.