E Quotes
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“every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.”
Source: Works
“Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence
“Every man who truly loves a woman, and every woman who truly loves a man, hopes and dreams that their companionship will last forever. But marriage is a covenant sealed by authority. If that authority is of the state alone, it will endure only while the state has jurisdiction, and that jurisdiction ends with death. But add to the authority of the state the power of the endowment given by Him who overcame death, and that companionship will endure beyond life if the parties to the marriage live worthy of the promise.”
“Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark. You should look behind you, Lord Snow. The moon has kissed you and etched your shadow upon the ice twenty feet tall.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“Every man who wears a tie is a criminal in his own small way.”
Source: The Devil on My Desktop: Phantom Key
“Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.”
“Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.”
Source: Public Opinion
“Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.”
Source: Ethical Writings of Maimonides
“Every man whose tastes have been allowed to develop in wrong directions, or in whom the best tastes have failed of higher perfection, loses thereby from the inner joy and outer value of his whole life. Every good taste is a source and guarantee of happy healthy hours and days, and thus of the enrichment and elevation of life. A reasonable capacity to appreciate music and art quite suffices to enrich life and exercise a wholesome influence upon character. The taste for good reading is inseparable from a taste for good thinking.”
“Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.”
Source: The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character
“Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.”
“Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race”
“Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend.”
Source: My Own Story
“Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.”
Source: Once Around the Sun
“Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.”
Source: TransAtlantic
“Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.”
Source: A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...
“Every man, woman, and child on this earth is a wandering pilgrim in his or her own way—each searching for a belonging place. That sense of belonging is found only as we care for one another.”
Source: Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
“Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.”
Source: North America
“Every man worthy of loving you won't make you change yourself.”
“Every man would fall in love with their voice, their lovely appearance, but no man would ever get past that. They'd never really know the girls for who they actually were, never really love them. It would be impossible for any of the four girls to ever really fall in love and be genuinely loved in return.”
“Every man you see upon the earth has some value within him already, hence you should treat every man you come across on earth with that worth and appreciation.”
Source: Create Your Own Net Worth
“Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.”
“Every man's actions belong to him.”
“Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.”
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's censure is first moulded in his own nature.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.”
“Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest.
[Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area,
Tantum habet et fidei.]”
“Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.”
Source: Cities of the Plain
“Every man's disease is his personal property.”
“Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.”
“Every man's entitled to hope.”
“Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.”
Source: Jaffery
“Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.”
Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues
“Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.”
Source: Hasidism and modern man
“Every man's friend is no man's friend.”
“Every man's got to figure out how to get beat sometime.”
“Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.”
Source: Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)
“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”
“Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.”
Source: Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses
“Every man's in his own hands, with a little help from his brothers.”
Source: Beyond Sanctuary
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“Every man's life is a plan of God.”
Source: The Vicarious Sacrifice: Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation
“Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.”
“Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.”
“Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.”
Source: The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life
“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
“Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.”
Source: THE HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD