Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting a new business. Rather, the Prince should be ready to reward men who want to do these things and those who endeavour in any way to increase the prosperity of their city or their state.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Man
  • Sports

• How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Man
  • You
  • How

• There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Man
  • Hero

• A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Man
  • Him

• Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Man

• I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Goal

• The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Man
  • Black
  • You

• This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Work
  • She
  • Bad

• When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • House
  • Parents
  • Man

• The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Man
  • Me

• In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Good
  • She
  • Man

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Great
  • Man
  • Words

• 'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Man
  • Health

• I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Man
  • Woman

• They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Man
  • Name

• You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • Man
  • Always
  • Same

• Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Game
  • Man

• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Friends
  • Opinion
  • Differences

• I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Person

• I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association - my older sister passed away from diabetes - and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • American
  • Focus
  • Confidence

• One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting a new business. Rather, the Prince should be ready to reward men who want to do these things and those who endeavour in any way to increase the prosperity of their city or their state.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Man
  • Improving
  • Posessions