Con Man S Mark Quotes

#1. Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons

Pope John Paul II

#2. After all, that's all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance.

Mark Lawrence

#3. It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

Mark Twain

#4. Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.

Mark Wahlberg

#5. My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.

Mark Helprin

#6. I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

Mark Twain

#7. The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#8. What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

Clifford D. Simak

#9. Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

Mark Twain

#10. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Charles Eastman

#11. Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Mark Twain

#12. The worst mark you can recieve is a promise, especially when it is confirmed with an oath; after which every man retires, and gives over all hopes. (referring to Chief Minister of State)

Jonathan Swift

#13. It is the mark of an educated man to be able to evaluate a thought without accepting it. ARISTOTLE

Paul Pearsall

#14. In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

Mark Twain

#15. Her face was not young, but it was simple; it was not fresh, but it was mild. She had large eyes which were not bright, and a great deal of hair which was not 'dressed,' and long fine hands which were
possibly
not clean.

Henry James

#16. The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

Ken Kesey

#17. When a man walks alone,
He is heard by thy own ears...
But when a man walks among others,
He is heard throughout eternity.

Mark Edward Thomas Piotrowski

#18. Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

Mark Twain

#19. An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded to a man before, and that without would or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.

Howard Pyle

#20. In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.

Mark Allen Smith

#21. That's what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, because in the end you have to live with yourself.

Mark Goldblatt

#22. If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod ... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

Mark Kurlansky

#23. I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

Mark Twain

#24. When it comes to your personal life, such as love and romance, girls should take a tip from the men and keep their affairs to themselves. Any man worth his salt regards his private life as his own. To kiss a girl and run and tell would mark him as a cad. Why doesn't that apply to girls also?

Carole Lombard

#25. But the cruelest habit the modern prophecy-savans have, is that one of coolly and arbitrarily fitting the prophetic shirt on to the wrong man. They do it without regard to rhyme or reason.

Mark Twain

#26. No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

Mark Twain

#27. The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#28. Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Mark Van Doren

#29. We're all going to die. Most of us will leave no mark of our existence behind what-so-ever. Not a stain or a smudge or a smear on the face of history. I think that's sad." It made Romney horribly regretful to think that the fat man was right.

Oliver Tidy

#30. A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!

Guy De Maupassant

#31. Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.

Mark Hopkins

#32. Well, I got my hand. What more does a man need?"
"Yes, and you've used that hand three-thousand times since you took over the ship."
[David to Miranda]

Mark Alders

#33. It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

Aristotle.

#34. Better a long ignoble life of shallow pleasures than a short stab at heroism, ending with a short stab. And just because one man plays another doesn't always mean that it's not the right direction for both of them.

Mark Lawrence