His Quotes
8811 His quotes by 4969 unique authors
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You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
— Sophocles
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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
— Plato
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Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
— Hesiod
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad…
— Herodotus
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of…
— Herodotus
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It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have…
— Jeff Goodell
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
— Plato
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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his…
— Freda Adler
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There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
— Michael Douglas
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
— Edmund Wilson
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I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.
— Martin Bashir
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Oh my goodness, I'm in love with Channing Tatum, although I think I'm too old to play his love interest. They'd probably cast me as…
— Sherri Shepherd
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During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own…
— Jean Piaget
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That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration…
— William McKinley
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Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for…
— John Tyler
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While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only…
— Dweezil Zappa
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I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know…
— Robert Wise
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The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.
— Robert Englund
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Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this…
— George Will
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The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.
— Max Jacob
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On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as…
— Wilhelm Dilthey
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses…
— Raymond Queneau
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My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which…
— James Black
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.
— Gabriel Marcel
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Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
— James Harrington
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