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Welcome to these Israel Zangwill Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
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The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
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