Wenige Männer / Few Men Zitate auf Englisch

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In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II. Vito Fossella

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

Sallust

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

David Ogilvy

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Edward Abbey

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

William Banting

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

John Updike

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

Adam Clarke

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

Robert Menzies

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

James A. Garfield

There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.

Arthur Keith

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

George Jackson

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

Vito Fossella

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

John George Nicolay

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

Michel de Montaigne

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Malcolm Muggeridge

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Henry David Thoreau

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

David Low

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

Buffalo Bill

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

Shirley Bassey

Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.

Matthew Simpson

Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

Patrick MacGill

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Douglas MacArthur

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

Denis Kearney

Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes.

Robert Green Ingersoll

You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.

Magnus Scheving

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard E. Byrd

I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.

Rabbit Maranville

There is no article of men's clothing that can make a man look more like a douche than the ascot. There are, however, a few men who can pull it off. Context is everything.

Roger Stone