A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
— Lana Turner
Craziest One Man quotations
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
Show me a man who has never made a mistake, and I will show you one who has never tried anything.
A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies;
to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters.
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
Man is equal to man. There should not be exploitation. One should help the other. No one should harm anybody. Generally there should be no room for grievance or complaint from anybody. Everyone should live and let others live, with a national spirit.
If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car!
What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one.
What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.
In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
I'm here to impress only one man. He don't live here with us. He's on top. So that's all I'm concerned about. My work is not for the public or for man to view or make judgment on me, I work for one person.
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.
Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.
The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.
There can be no divided allegiance here.
Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.
[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling.
Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.
If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.
A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.
The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered; it can only be felt and acted. It is, in fact, an open secret, and each man knows it according to his quest and capacity. Like all things worth knowing, no one can know it for another and no man can know it alone.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.