All Quotes

One man's folly is another man's wife.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
‐‐ Milton Friedman

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.
‐‐ George Ade

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
‐‐ Ogden Nash

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
‐‐ Jane Austen

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
‐‐ Gerry Adams

One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.
‐‐ Josh Radnor

One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
‐‐ Dennis Miller

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
‐‐ Harold Wilson

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
‐‐ Jane Austen

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
‐‐ Vladimir Lenin

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
‐‐ Elizabeth I

One man with courage is a majority.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
‐‐ Robert Fortune

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
‐‐ James Thurber

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
‐‐ E. M. Forster

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
‐‐ Laurence Sterne

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
‐‐ John Muir

One may be humble out of pride.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
‐‐ Theophrastus

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.
‐‐ Sun Yat-sen

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
‐‐ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
‐‐ Germaine Greer

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
‐‐ Arthur Koestler

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
‐‐ Anne Hutchinson

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
‐‐ Ivan Turgenev

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
‐‐ John Burroughs

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
‐‐ Barbara Walters

One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; it wasn't necessarily my favorite, but I will always remember it.
‐‐ Rob Machado

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
‐‐ Clifton Fadiman

One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to gate. Other measures come with the waits on the expressways and the runways.
‐‐ James Gleick

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
‐‐ James E. Casey

One medal. One shot. One lap. Eight riders. No lanes. No right of way. Just go.
‐‐ Caroline Buchanan

One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.
‐‐ John Catsimatidis

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
‐‐ Voltaire

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
‐‐ Alfred de Vigny

One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.
‐‐ Joseph Jacobs

One might argue that proper understanding of any social situation would require game-theoretic analysis.
‐‐ John Harsanyi