Quotes About Independence

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.

You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about. He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

When a man refuses to take money from those who give money to politicians, you don't pay the piper and sit back and let somebody else call the tune.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.