One Man Quotes - Page 34

• The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Men, Rooms

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.212, Anchor

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• It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Faults, Conversation

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.321

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• They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

  John Wesley

  Men, Six, Seven

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• One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.

  William Morris

  Real, War, Men

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Dogma, Oppression

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• Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.

  William Morris

  Men, Two, Alive

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.69, Delphi Classics

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• This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Numbers, People

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.16, VM eBooks

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• I've always been curious as to why one man jumps out of a fox-hole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest and his buddy, who sits right there next to him, sits there cowering. My feeling is that the different is tiny between the two.

  Stephen Lang

  Gun, Men, Two

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Your Western ideas about love are ridiculous. A woman is put on earth to please a man and a man should have many women, and a woman should only have one man.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Men, Should Have, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in Washington, D.C., and I saw Ian McKellen do his one-man show - I think it was called Acting Shakespeare - and it completely bombed me; it put the zap on my brain in a big way.

  Edward Norton

  Teacher, Men, Thinking

  "It's Edward Norton Day!". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, Interview Magazine, www.interview.de. May, 2006.

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• What we all have to admit to is that one man cannot save us. Unless we start energizing ourselves, all standing behind him with all of the force of our collective power then we can't expect mountains to be moved. And that is not exactly happening, we are a very comfortable population.

  Ani DiFranco

  Men, Mountain, Population

  Interview with Courtney Phenicie, cincymusic.com. November 23, 2017.

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• A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

  Alan Lightman

  Men, Desert, Tents

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• When one man becomes more important than the country he's supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem.

  Martina Navratilova

  Country, Men, Important

  Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. December 5, 2007.

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• Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships of philosophy; and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships.

  Bertrand Russell

  Kings, Philosophy, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.220, Routledge

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• From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Taken, Men, Orange

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
  To do our country loss; and if to live,
  The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
  God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Loss, Men

  William Shakespeare (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.531

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• I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

  Heinrich Heine

  Regret, Men, Wife

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• In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.

  John Motson

  Men, Two, Goalkeepers

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• At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.

  Robert Payne

  Lying, Heart, Men

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Suffering, Ease

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• Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Husband, Men, Two

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• The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Men, Enemy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.72, Penguin

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• Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Reform, Journalism

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.10, Hayes Barton Press

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• One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

  Herodotus

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Receiving, Favors

  "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen", 1966.

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