Jonathan Swift Quotes
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.Jonathan Swift
Quotes to Explore
-
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
P. T. Barnum -
It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
Rachel Hunter -
Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
F. Murray Abraham -
You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
Malik Bendjelloul -
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Joanne Rowling -
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Samuel Beckett
-
I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.
Wayne Gretzky -
Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
M. Night Shyamalan -
When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
H. R. McMaster -
But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
Dabney Coleman -
After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
Jackie Robinson -
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
Earl Warren
-
Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
E. L. Doctorow -
It comes down to personal style, and that's what's sexy and attractive in a man.
Hannah Simone -
What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
Qandeel Baloch -
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard -
You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
H. L. Mencken
-
I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In terms of television, 'Maverick' and 'Have Gun - Will Travel.' But filmically, classics like 'High Noon' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' - that's one of my favorite films.
Ed Harris -
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde -
The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.
Sean M. Carroll -
The river was dyed with the blood of the slaughtered for two hundred yards. The approximate loss was upward of five hundred killed, but few of the officers escaping. My loss was about twenty killed. It is hoped that these facts will demonstrate to the Northern people that Negro soldiers cannot cope with Southerners.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.
David Korten -
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
Jonathan Swift