Every Man Quotes - Page 5

• Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

  Jonathan Swift

  Friends, Believe, Men

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.359

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• Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

  Lydia M. Child

  Angel, Men, Clouds

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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• It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Coats, Shabby

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.112

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• Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Judgment

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• In every man there is something of all men.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men

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• It is right to give every man his due.

  Plato

  Men, Giving, Dues

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• Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Important, Littles

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “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”, p.334

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• Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Men, Wish

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “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”, p.247

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, Might

  Samuel Johnson (1800). “The Idler: With Additional Essays”, p.122

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• To do something is in every man's power.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Deeds

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• Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Delay, Faults

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.145

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• Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Wish, Native Place

  Letter to Sir Joshua Reynolds, 17 July 1771, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 141

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• Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

  Samuel Johnson

  Strong, Men, Virtue

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “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”, p.389

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• Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Wine, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1807). “Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.42

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• The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lying, Archer, Heart

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• Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Men, Ideas, Two

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Men, Plot, Fiction

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.87

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• What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

  Epictetus

  Freedom, Men, Restraint

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.345

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• True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Fall, Men, Wit

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.186

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• Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

  Sophocles

  Men, Blind

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• ... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Men, Rights, Planets

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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• But those who chose to reject God during their lifetime on earth will be separated from him for eternity. This is not God's desire, but man's own choice. God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Men, Choices, Rejection

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• If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Mean, Men, Law

  "United States v. United Mine Workers, 330 U.S. 258". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 6, 1947.

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• Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Forever, Priests

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• Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Childhood, Age

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