Herodotus Quotes
Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.Herodotus
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor -
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison -
If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
Baron d'Holbach -
I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
Kate Williams -
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson -
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
Omar N. Bradley
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
E. M. Forster -
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Quintilian -
I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
Samm Levine -
I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
Dakota Fanning -
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 -
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
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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 -
A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
Carly Fiorina -
The toxic effect of carbon monoxide on man has nothing to do with inhibition of cellular respiration by carbon monoxide but is based on the reaction of carbon monoxide with blood iron.
Otto Heinrich Warburg -
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy -
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust
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Come on, man, I got a full beard!
Aziz Ansari -
NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.
Joanne Rowling -
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser -
Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.
Dan Rather -
Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
Herodotus