Own Quotes

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities - a 'we're all in it together' society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.