#able man

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me." ↗

— Joseph Addison

#away #cannot #charitable #epitaph #gave

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#able #able man #fortune #his #hundred

Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#able man #although #disagreed #do the right thing #friend

The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army. ↗

— Robert Jenkins

#american #army #assigned #bring #capable

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#any #been #behave #chance #cheerful

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#admirable #face #man #mark #really

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#able man #before #best #brain #capture

Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man. ↗

— Arthur Cohn

#honourable #man #michael #slowly #speak

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#able man #happy #happy man #idle #man

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#creep #enough #flesh #i #know