Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Rodgers

As a man of faith, God doesn't bring you to things that you can't get through. He doesn't put you in a spot and then leave you out to dry.

A. P. Herbert

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

A. P. Herbert

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

A. P. Herbert

aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.

A. P. Herbert

The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.

A. J. Liebling

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

A. J. Liebling

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

A. J. P. Taylor

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction

A. J. P. Taylor

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

A. J. P. Taylor

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

A. N. Wilson

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

A. N. Wilson

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

A. Scott Berg

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

A. Philip Randolph

We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.

Sarah Shahi

Right when I finish a workout, I feel pretty sexy. Even though I'm sweaty and I don't smell like a rose, I feel strong. It does a lot for me mentally and physically.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

Abbey Lincoln

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

Abdoulaye Wade

We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

Abbie Hoffman

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

Abbas Kiarostami

The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but reflection that I could intend to offer the viewer of the film.

Abbas Kiarostami

I really haven't seen The Report in a long time. I don't have a copy, but I'll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men next to each other.

A. B. Yehoshua

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

A. E. Housman

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

A. E. Housman

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

A. E. Waite

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

A. E. Housman

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

A. E. Housman

If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...

A. E. Housman

They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.

A. A. Milne

The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

Aeschylus

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

Aeschylus

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Aeschylus

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

Aeschylus

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.