Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander the Great

As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

Alexander the Great

Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

Alexander Theroux

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

Alexander Theroux

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

Alexander Pushkin

In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

Alexander Smith

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

Alexander Smith

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

Alexander Smith

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

Alexander Smith

The only thing a man knows is himself.

Alexander Smith

The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

Alexander Smith

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

Alexander Smith

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

Alexander Smith

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Alexander Smith

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

Alexander Smith

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

Alexander Smith

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

Ben Jones

We did not produce our strongest game. There were too many mistakes by us and we did not mentally really get into the match. They put us under a lot of pressure.

William Shakespeare

Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.

William Shakespeare

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad

William Shakespeare

Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)

William Shakespeare

All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.

William Shakespeare

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

William Shakespeare

Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.

William Shakespeare

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

William Shakespeare

O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.

Ezra Taft Benson

Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

Richard Jefferson

We're not very mentally tough. We're not very physically tough. It's consistent. At some point in time you've got to get mad.

Imelda May

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

Idina Menzel

I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

Zaha Hadid

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Warren Farrell

I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

Chuck Palahniuk

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

Clara Bow

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.