Axel Munthe Quotes

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

Axel Munthe

• Long
• Man
• Stand

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Man
  • Shoes
  • Fools

• Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Long
  • Today
  • Energy

• I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Father
  • Perfect
  • Heaven

• Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Man

• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Man
  • Know
  • Spirit

• I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Man
  • Heaven

• How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Keep

• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • History
  • Man
  • Reality

• If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Smile

• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Country
  • Man

• But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Age
  • Man
  • Shape

• I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Music
  • Long
  • Country

• I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

  

  Ed Balls
  • War
  • Wrong
  • Iraq

• The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Law

• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Man
  • Silence
  • Known

• As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

  

  Marian Anderson
  • Long

• Since the 1980s, we have given the rich a bigger slice of our pie in the belief that they would create more wealth, making the pie bigger than otherwise possible in the long run. The rich got the bigger slice of the pie all right, but they have actually reduced the pace at which the pie is growing.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Long
  • Growing
  • Running

• Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

  

  Plato
  • Money
  • Man
  • Stake

• In person, I wear jeans and flip-flops, and people are so shocked. They tell me I look so much younger than they expected.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • People

• I don't want Washington - let me be perfectly clear - I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines.

  

  Jan Brewer
  • Education
  • English
  • Math

• A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Long
  • Man
  • Stand