Men Quote by Robert Ripley Download Open image “A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.” — Robert Ripley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Minutes Obscurity Slave Ten Ten years Years
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The word of the man of character will go further than all the riches of a man without a good name... — Jesse Joseph Copy Share Image
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before. — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work. — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of his life… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he'd walk… — Robert Ripley Copy Share Image
I Have traveled 201 countries including Hell (Norway), and the strangest thing I've seenwas man — Robert Ripley Copy Share Image
My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't… — Robert Ripley Copy Share Image
Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills… — Robert Ripley Copy Share Image
My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning. — Robert Ripley Copy Share Image
He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop… — Robert Ripley 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