"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."

Man, Ships

38

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Man, Pain

"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Man, Men, Poison

"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

bell hooks, American Critic

Man, Men, Columbus

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Man, Woman

"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

Man, Men

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Man, Old, Today

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Man, Men, Want

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Man, Men, Women, Beginning

"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Man, Men, Will

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Poor, Statesman

Explore more quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

"The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor."

Nature

"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."

Anger

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."

Opportunity

"It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing."

Funny

"Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens."

God

"No man may make another free."

Man

"The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty."

People

38

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Man quotes

"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

Explore more quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

"The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor."

"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."

"I regret all of my books."

"I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump."

"When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous."

"It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing."

"Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens."

"No man may make another free."

"The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty."