E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Every man now is responsible to create a buddhafield around himself, an energy field that goes on becoming bigger and bigger. Create as many vibrations of laughter, joy, celebration, as possible; dance, sing, let the whole of humanity by and by catch the fire of Zen and the wind of Zen.”
“Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.”
“Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.”
“Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.”
“Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.”
“Every man of average capability can learn any foreign language within a month, and whoever fails is a lazy or stupid fellow.”
Source: Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
“Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.”
Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“Every man of courage is a man of his word.”
“Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.”
“Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.”
“Every man of my age has had in his youth one blessing for which our juniors may well envy him: we grew up in a world of cheap and abundant books.”
Source: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?”
“Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat everyone who suffers from the malady of sin with kindness and love. This is an important truth, which we often forget. Very often we act in the opposite manner: we add malice to malice by our anger, we oppose pride with pride. Thus, evil grows within us and does not decrease; it is not cured - rather it spreads”
“Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design
“Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.”
Source: The Stand
“Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.”
“Every man or woman who turns to Christ must bear in mind that they are breaking with their old master, and enlisting under a new leader. Conversion is a revolutionary process.”
“Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!”
Source: The Book of Snobs: And, Sketches and Travels in London ; [Character Sketches]
“Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?”
Source: The pursuit of humor and other essays
“Every man ought to plant a tree.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.”
“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.”
“Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has the moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.”
“Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.”
“Every man paddles his own canoe.”
“Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.”
Source: British Theatre: Bonduca
“Every man possesses that which is according to the image of God, for the gifts of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). But only a few ? those who are virtuous and holy, and have imitated the goodness of God to the limit of human powers ? possess that which is according to the likeness of God.”
“Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.”
“Every man praises his own wares.”
“Every man prays in his own language.”
Source: The Duke Ellington Reader
“Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.”
“Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.”
“Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“Every man reaches his destination, if he just keeps walking”
Source: My Life My Africa
“Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.”
Source: Levana: or, The doctrine of education
“Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.”
“Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.”
“Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is nature?”
Source: Nature
“Every man's got a place of worship. Mine's twelve feet tall, painted in road dust, and powered by diesel."
— Frozen Freight: Iron Reach”
Source: Frozen Freight: Iron Reach
“Every man's measurement is determined by his responses when he is on his knees before God.”
Source: When You Pray
“Every man’s soul is an independent universe, his death the extinction of the universe in miniature.”
Source: Lykke-Per
“Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.”
“Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.”
“Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“Every man shall find his own desire; there is no one thing which pleases all: one man gathers thorns and another roses.”
“Every man shall give account of his life to his Maker.”
“Every man shall reap what he has sown, from the highest lord to the lowest gutter rat. And some will lose more than the tips off their fingers, I promise you. They have made my kingdom bleed, and I do not forget that”
“Every man should arm himself as quickly as he could, and come to the King.”