All Quotes

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
‐‐ Robert Burton

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
‐‐ Plautus

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.
‐‐ Rita Hayworth

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
‐‐ Mae West

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

Every man is a hero to his alias.
‐‐ Lee Siegel

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
‐‐ Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is an artist.
‐‐ Joseph Beuys

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
‐‐ Martin Heidegger

Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.
‐‐ Karrine Steffans

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
‐‐ Voltaire

Every man is half God, half man; he is both spirit and flesh. That is why the mystery of Christ is not simply a mystery for a particular creed: It is universal.
‐‐ Nikos Kazantzakis

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
‐‐ Francis Herbert Hedge

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
‐‐ Frederick Henry Hedge

Every man is his own chief enemy.
‐‐ Anacharsis

Every man is his own hell.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
‐‐ Hermann Hesse

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?
‐‐ Aleksander Kwasniewski

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
‐‐ Jane Austen

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
‐‐ Sallust

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.
‐‐ Sydney Madwed

Every man is the son of his own works.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.
‐‐ Joseph Butler

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
‐‐ Robertson Davies

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
‐‐ Meir Kahane

Every man loves what he is good at.
‐‐ Thomas Shadwell

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
‐‐ James Otis

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
‐‐ James Cash Penney

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
‐‐ Martin Luther

Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.
‐‐ Mstislav Rostropovich

Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
‐‐ Earl Derr Biggers

Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is usually the one on my wrist. I buy mine in the Diamond District in New York City. Classic.
‐‐ French Montana

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
‐‐ Albert Camus

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
‐‐ Iris Murdoch

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
‐‐ Sextus Propertius

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.
‐‐ Giorgos Seferis