Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Doris Lessing

Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.

Doris Lessing

Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.

Doris Lessing

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Doris Lessing

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Doris Lessing

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

Doris Lessing

Women have an extraordinary ability to withdraw from the sexual relationship, to immunize themselves against it, in such a way that their men can be left feeling let down and insulted without having anything tangible to complain of.

Doris Lessing

What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.

Doris Lessing

But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is intense. For instance, decade after decade bright young men and women emerge from their universities able to say proudly: 'Of course I know nothing about German literature.' It is the mode. The Victorians knew everything about German literature, but were able with a clear conscience not to know much about the French.

Doris Lessing

Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

Doris Lessing

I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.

Donna Summer

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

Donnie Wahlberg

It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.

Donald Justice

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

Donald Hall

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

Donald Glover

People are sometimes like: "Oh man, you're so talented and you do a bunch of stuff." I'm not! I swear to god, I'm not. I just like learning stuff, I like doing stuff. And I feel like everybody can definitely do it.

Don Rickles

The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.

Dakota Johnson

I think there’s a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

Dale Carnegie

A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.

Dale Carnegie

A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India

Dale Carnegie

Don't ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time

Dale Carnegie

I know men and women can banish worry, fear and various kinds of illnesses, and can transform their lives by changing their thoughts. I know! I know! I know! I have seen such incredible transformations performed hundreds of times. I have seen them so often that I no longer wonder at them.

Dale Carnegie

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

Dale Carnegie

The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.

Dale Carnegie

Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?