Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Baudelaire

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

Charles Baudelaire

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

Charles Baudelaire

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

Charles Baudelaire

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

Charles Baudelaire

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

Charles Baudelaire

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

Charles Baudelaire

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

Charles Baudelaire

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Chaim Potok

The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

Charlie Munger

Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

Charles Mingus

I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.

Charles M. Schwab

I am not a believer in large salaries. I hold that every man should be paid for personal production. Our big men at Bethlehem seldom get salaries of over one hundred dollars a week; but all of them receive bonuses computed entirely on the efficiencies and the economies registered in their departments.

Charles M. Schwab

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

Charles M. Schwab

Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.

Charles Manson

All the men in the joint raised me up, told me what to do, what was right and wrong, told me when to sit down, when to stand up, I just did whatever I was told.

Charles Manson

I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.

Charles Manson

I am the man in the mirror, anything you see in me is in you, I am you, and when you can admit that you will be free. I am just a mirror.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Charles Hodge

It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.

Charles Garfield

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

Charles Frazier

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

Bill Maher

There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'

Bill Maher

Talk to women who've ever dated an Arab man. The results are not good,

Bill Maher

The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover.

Bill Bixby

First I found [Elvis] to be a gentleman and then a gentle man. I found he could be sensitive to small issues. For someone of his stature there is very little for him to notice, ya know? He's so insulated by the people who surround him and by his own popularity. And yet Elvis will still find little things. He'll take the time to be gentle with people.

Bernard Malamud

All men are Jews, though few men know it.

Bob Marley

I-man say don’t make jah body a graveyard for de dead animals,

Bill Veeck

If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

Madeleine Albright

Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of women be able to dwell in luxurious seclusion from the trials of life, while another class performed their loathsome tasks? Surely His wisdom had not decreed that one set of women should live in degradation and in the end should perish that others might live in security, preserve their frappeed chastity, and in the end be saved.

Madeleine Albright

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

William Shakespeare

O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!

William Shakespeare

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause.