Menander Quotes

The good man makes others good.

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• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Women
  • She

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'

  

  Jack Keane
  • Up
  • American
  • President

• My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Wrong
  • Places

• People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • People
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Small
  • Very
  • Feet

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Enthusiasm

• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Food
  • Favorite

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Great
  • Deep
  • Restaurant

• The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• Sometimes one’s very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that’s the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• When the sun appears which dispels darkness in general, you put out the light which dispelled it for you in particular for your need and convenience.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Light
  • Sun

• Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Dirty

• I've never been too concerned with what I'm wearing, and that probably makes a lot of people angry, but I let the music do the talking and let the image be what it's going to be.

  

  Luke Combs
  • People
  • Music
  • Angry

• It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

  

  Chuck Noll
  • Team
  • Football

• Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.

  

  David Neeleman
  • People
  • Wife
  • Flying

• If you broke down my technique, it wouldn't really take a rocket scientist to do so.

  

  John Cena

• To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Marathon
  • Drum
  • Same Time

• I'm so suspicious of boys-slash-men. I just don't like them or trust them.

  

  Megan Fox
  • Men
  • Trust

• To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Men
  • Nature

• Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Die
  • Forever

• The good man makes others good.

  

  Menander
  • Men
  • Goodness