Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Hoagland

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

Edward Hoagland

If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have to transpose the faith in nature which is inherent in the profession to a faith in man-if necessary, man alone in the world.

Edward Gibbon

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

Edward Gibbon

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

Edward Gibbon

Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.

Edward Gibbon

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .

Edward Gibbon

At that time the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria was filled by Theophilus, the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad man, whose hands were alternately polluted with gold and with blood.

Edward Gibbon

But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects which dissented from the catholic church were afflicted and oppressed by the triumph of Christianity. Constantine easily believed that the heretics, who presumed to dispute his opinions or to oppose his commands, were guilty of the most absurd and criminal obstinacy; and that a seasonable application of moderate severities might save those unhappy men from the danger of an everlasting condemnation.

Edmond de Goncourt

Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.

Edith Head

many women dress for men before marriage, and for women after marriage ...

Edith Head

Just imagine dressing the two handsomest men in the world, and then getting this!

Edith Stein

We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.

Edmond Rostand

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

Edmond Rostand

My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

Edith Sitwell

I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

Edith Sitwell

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Edith Wharton

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

Edith Wharton

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Edith Wharton

When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.

Eddie Montgomery

We'll go back and listen to some 70's music. Just everything. I guess the main thing is that we listen to creative guys, male or female either one. Just people that have got great talent and we're able to say, 'man, that is unbelievable.

Eddie Murphy

Apparently every man was told to bring three women with them. Sounds like a ho-down.

Eddie Murphy

The white man gets all the best catchphrases!

Eddie Murphy

I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before!

Eddie Murphy

I'm just a man. I think people are reacting to something else when they see me. They're not reacting to me, Eddie Murphy. They don't even know me. It's just luck and the God in me they're reacting to.

Eddie Murphy

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.

Ed Asner

I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

Ed Asner

The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.

Earl Wilson

A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.

Earl Wilson

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

Earl Wilson

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

Ed Begley, Jr.

I think people love nature after they experience it. I know I experienced it as a young man - I took a lot of hikes, I was involved in scouting.

Earl Warren

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.