Quotes by Man If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. Thomas J. Watson good you man time Treat each case as an individual case, and give every man an opportunity to earn just as much money as he is capable of earning. Thomas J. Watson treat man money opportunity That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. Thomas Hood think man men peace That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion. Thomas Hearns fight man champion done Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste. Thomas Edward Brown good man nature art A rich man's joke is always funny. Thomas Edward Brown joke man rich funny Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree. Thomas Dekker stand man idle tree No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. Thomas Dewey man private-life money life Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes. Thomas Dewar judge man clothes wife A college education shows a man how little other people know. Thomas Chandler Haliburton man college education people Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. Thomas de Quincey man anger sleep forget There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture. Thomas Couture picture only who man A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. Thomas Beecham hear who man music A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere. Thomas Bailey Aldrich balloon outside without man Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry. Thomas Bailey Aldrich mine own man gold What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while. Thomas Bailey Aldrich stand man life people When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all! Thomas Bailey Aldrich how him man light In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them. Thomas Bailey Aldrich them every man age A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus! Thomas Bailey Aldrich down beginning man habit To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man. Thomas Bailey Aldrich know man punishment proud «56789101112131415»