One Man Quotes - Page 24

• You can just fight one man at a time.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighting, Men

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• In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

  Christopher Meloni

  Men, Defense, Fit

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• Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

  Harper Lee

  Men, Hands, Bottles

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

  O. Winston Link

  Men, Railroads, Bigs

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• The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Sin, Conversation

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2329, e-artnow

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• It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

  Charles Garfield

  Men, Band, Genius

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• Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ocean, Science, Men

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• A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pride, Men, Political

  George Bernard Shaw "The Progressive" (1910)

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• If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Different, Portraiture

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• One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Body, May

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Character, Men, Bricks And Mortar

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Heaven, Weakness

  Alexander Pope (1829). “An Essay on Man: And Other Poems”, p.21

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• There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.

  Euripides

  Men, Law, Cities

  Euripides (1863). “The Tragedies of Euripides: Hercules furens. The Troades. Ion. Andromache. Suppliants. Helen. Electra. Cyclops. Rhesus”, p.175

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• The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Men, World

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.23

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• There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Claude Adrien Helvétius (1777). “A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...”, p.291

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• The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Independence, Firsts

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

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• Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Hope, Hero, Men

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• I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

  Lucy Stone

  Winning, Men, Thinking

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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• Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they have her to another, Nor, indeed, have we heard, even in former creations, of such ,a thing as the covert sale of a daughter for a fixed price, called a nuptial fee.

  Guru Nanak

  Daughter, Men, Good Man

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• But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Heart, Men, Light

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• There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival and defeat means death - and that man is John McCain

  Sarah Palin

  Mean, Winning, Men

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Rivers, America

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• It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Men, Quality

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• In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Men

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