John Fowles Quote

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

Pierre Corneille

• Courage
• Words

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

Rudolph Valentino

• Man

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?

Chuang Tzu

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Comeback is a good word, man.

Mickey Rourke

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Sophocles

• Words

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Ernest Hemingway

• Words

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

• Learning
• Words

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Erasmus Darwin

• Man

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Man
• Life
• Friendship

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Sophocles

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Mark Twain

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Victor Hugo

• God
• Hope

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Friedrich Schiller

• Man

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Mind
• Listening
• Words

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Happiness
• Beginning

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

Sophocles

• Man