Fellows Quotes

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Thomas Jefferson

Beauty, Wisdom, Jealous

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William Shakespeare

Nature, Time, Strange

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher

Strength, Strong, Greatest

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
Martin Luther

Wise, Young, Old

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.
Morihei Ueshiba

Good, Yourself, Heart

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams

Heart, Desire, Beloved

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce

Success, Against, Sin

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
Kenneth Grahame

Best, Yourself, Busy

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
Kin Hubbard

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
William Hazlitt

Time, Death, Fight

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Moliere

Good, True, Act

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
Josh Billings

Love, Said, Blind

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
Charles Lamb

Among, Grown, Companions

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
Paul Valery

Attitude, Judge, Nothing

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Susan B. Anthony

God, Wants, Distrust

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
Giacomo Casanova

Good, Stupidity, Cannot

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Havelock Ellis

Different, Genius, Tragedy

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
Bertolt Brecht

Top, Bottom, Victories

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Miguel de Cervantes

Good, Sea, Water

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
Herman Melville

Men, Poor, Since

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
James Buchan

Money, Themselves, Pay

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.
John L. Lewis

Men, Home, Strength

Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
Ilka Chase

Family, Men, Woman

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. Housman

Hurts, Stuff, Drink

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
Mary Wortley Montagu

Time, Nothing, Laugh

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.
William Kingdon Clifford

Good, Live, Help

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
Hilaire Belloc

Lie, Moment, Begins

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
Madeleine Stowe

Home, Long, Same

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.
Jim Capaldi

Strong, Made, America

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