Quotes About Influence

The difference between two men is usually a woman.

A lazy man's wife is generally the power behind the drone.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

A man is worked on by what he works on.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Knowledge—Zzzzzp! Money—Zzzzzp!—Power! That's the cycle democracy is built on!