Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Progress is recognizing that America is not a systematically racist nation and that the actions of bad police officers do not define… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that… — Boethius Copy Share Image
Another boat, a straight-four, four sweep oarsmen without a coxswain, raced through our flotilla. I looked at them as they jetted past,… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
I have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and I will…I have come to peace… — Timothy McVeigh Copy Share Image
I was going to be credited as Wray Nerely, my role in Con Man. It got cut in the reshoots. I was… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Flying while Muslim is nerve-racking in itself. Every time I prepare to fly, I have to make sure the anxiety I feel… — Debbie Almontaser Copy Share Image
Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
A pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the… — Charles Marion Russell Copy Share Image
The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Over the years, it seems 'Firefly' has only gained momentum rather than lost it. I still get letters from people who watched… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
Will is a very interesting, unique man, and I'll tell you why. He makes love like a woman. He loves to touch,… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Great pilots are made not born. . . . A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have… — Plautus Copy Share Image
I'm around 6'4' and 240 pounds. So I rarely feel that intimidated by other men. But I've got to give it up… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
