Even an evil man can have principleshe can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.
The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.
If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.
The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out. . . he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood "my name is Ice Cube. "
I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man.
I believe no matter how much you research a person's life. No matter how long you spend, the person always remains a mystery. I go by this quote that Mark Twain said about the definition of a biography: a biography is the clothes and buttons of a man or a woman but the real story is in the person's head and that you can never know. I don't think it's possible to get the whole picture, ever.
It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength.
What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?
Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible.
The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain.
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.