Men Quote by George Ade Download Open image “The only literary men are those who have to work at it.” — George Ade ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“When you start searching for ‘pure elements’ in literature you will find that literature has been created by the following classes of persons: Inventors.… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women. — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
“[...]all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear[...]” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive… — George Ade Copy Share Image
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months. — George Ade Copy Share Image
Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking. — George Ade Copy Share Image
I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily,… — George Ade Copy Share Image
Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit… — George Ade Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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