On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I don't want to be surrounded by 'yes men'. I want people who'll disagree with me, even if it costs them their… — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man. — Sappho Copy Share Image
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“I can’t bear the smell of cigars, can you?” said Lady Partridge. “Lionel hates it too,” murmured Rachel. As did Nick, to… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Faith is the backbone of the social and the foundation of the commercial fabric; remove faith between man and man, and society… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There is no mystery in a looking glass until someone looks into it. Then, though it remains the same glass, it presents… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image