E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.”
Source: The World Crisis
“Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco”
“Every man should be capable of all ideas.”
Source: Ficciones
“Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.”
Source: Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, Liberty of the Press, and Law of Nations. Written for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica
“Every man should be content to mind his own business.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.”
“Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man. But the principle of responsibility secures that which is the greatest good in states; the right persons rule and are prevented from doing wrong, and the people have their due. It is evident that this is the best kind of democracy, and why? because the people are drawn from a certain class.”
Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens
“Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.”
“Every man should care (be concerned) about these three things: Which station have I come from? Which station did I get off? Which station am I going to?”
“Every man should esteem his neighbor as himself.”
“Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.”
“Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.”
Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...
“Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.”
Source: Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection
“Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.”
Source: The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
“Every man should have the right to choose their destiny.”
“Every man should know how to satisfy a woman until she is sexually satisfied. And when he knows, he should strive to ensure his woman is truly satisfied.”
“Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.”
“Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967
“Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”
Source: A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four
“Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.”
Source: Golden Rules for Making Money
“Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.”
“Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.”
“Every man should measure himself by his own standard.
[Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]”
“Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.”
“Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.”
“Every man should see the birth of his children”
“Every man should stay within his own fortune.
[Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]”
“Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.”
“Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.”
“Every man should wake up alone and spend thirty minutes outside. He should spend thirty minutes with the rising sun listening for birds while pacing back and forth in ponderous thought, with a cool breeze on his nose and his arms stretched into the open air. He should spend thirty minutes alone with whatever view is available. Then he should go back to sleep.”
Source: THIS SIDE OF A WILDERNESS: A Novel
“Every man should write a brief history of his life: his parentage, his birth, his religion, when he was baptized and by whom, when ordained, what to, and by whom-give a brief sketch of all his missions and of all his official acts and the dealings of God with him. Then if he were to die and the historians wished to publish his history, they would have something to go by.”
“Every man sits upon a throne built from the stones of his own misjudgment.”
Source: Stories Of Jivavarta
“Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired.”
Source: The Idler: With Additional Essays
“Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired; but when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to sounds, from sentences to periods, and, as he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible.”
Source: The Idler: With Additional Essays
“Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.”
“Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842
“Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.”
Source: The Suffering of the World
“Every man tells two stories: one to themselves, and one to the others. Most of the time, these two stories do not bare resemblance to one another. Most of the time, we wake up and wish we were in another story.”
“Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn’t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn’t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn’t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life.”
“Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child - every solitary one was a Democrat.”
“every man there had been trained from childhood in the brutal schools, as assassins. They were all looking for a new life and trying to figure out the rules of society. They knew they'd never fit perfectly, but they were doing their best.”
Source: Vendetta Road
“Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.”
Source: The Lark
“Every man thinks himself best and better but I want no part in that parade. The older you get, you realize people are fleeting save the ones that are in front of you. And at some point, there's no one left to impress - they're all impressed enough.”
Source: The Incarnate