The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried. — Bud Wilkinson Copy Share Image
African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
It is not that God is stingy and must be coaxed, for He "giveth liberally and upbraideth not." It is that we… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the… — Charlie LeDuff Copy Share Image
The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When it comes to your personal life, such as love and romance, girls should take a tip from the men and keep… — Carole Lombard Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man in power depends on receiving information all the time… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand. — Horace Copy Share Image
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue… — Vash Young Copy Share Image
Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
