Top 100 Many Are Quotes
#1. There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!
Stanislaw Leszczynski
#2. Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.
Mary Parker Follett
#3. As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are
the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in
much poison.
Ovid
#4. When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee Williams
#5. Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.
Jeremy Taylor
#6. It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.
Savielly Tartakower
#7. Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.
Khalil Gibran
#8. Could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable. All we can do is wait, as calmly as possible, for it to end. Jews and Christians alike are waiting, the whole world is waiting, and many are waiting for death.
Anne Frank
#9. Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
Filippo Brunelleschi
#10. If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.
Pat Buchanan
#11. Not his match! And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best? How many are his match? How many in this world do you think stand in the front rank? Are all the rest of us to give up and sit on our hands rather than serve humbly where we deserve?
Edith Pargeter
#12. Many are poets, but without the name;
For what is Poesy but to create
From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim
At an external life beyond our fate,
And be the new Prometheus of new men,
Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,
Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain
George Gordon Byron
#13. Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.
Simon Munnery
#14. Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
Julian Bond
#15. Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts
George S. Patton
#16. Many are guilty of merely 'nibbling' at the truth of the Christian Gospel.
A.W. Tozer
#17. Compassion has dropped so far out of sight these days that many are confused about what is required. It even inspires overt hostility.
Karen Armstrong
#18. While you are so busy trying to make yourself humble,
many are persistently and quietly promoting themselves.
Toba Beta
#19. What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.
Robert Breault
#20. Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
Sophocles
#21. Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#22. A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
Samuel Johnson
#23. Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.
Ronald Rolheiser
#24. Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
Garry Trudeau
#25. The only reason so many are so pissed off at the US is because they see North America as promoting a 'bad deal' for its own masses, not because it is ruining the rest of the world!
Andre Vltchek
#26. More than 95 percent of the world's bacteria are harmless to humans. Many are extremely beneficial. Disinfectants have no place in a normal household. They are appropriate only if a family member is sick or the dog poops on the carpet.
Giulia Enders
#27. That is what happens when the heart door opens- you become less yourself than part of everything.' Many are the sentinels who guard that door: our fears, our self-importance, our meanness, our greed, our bitterness, and others.
Roger Housden
#28. Many are called to the wedding-feast, that is, to salvation, but few have the wedding-garment, the righteousness of Christ, the sanctification of the Spirit. Then let us examine ourselves whether we are in the faith, and seek to be approved by the King.
Henry Matthew
#29. Many are hurting for love, while many are suffering from a love that hurts.
Anthony Liccione
#30. Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.
John Pilger
#31. Some people Live before they die, but many are Dead even as they Live.-RVM
R.v.m.
#32. The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.
Aristotle.
#33. Many are the things I guess we'd like to go back in time and rectify the things we didn't do right, eh?
Julius Schwartz
#35. What you put out is what you get back, and the reason so many are so short of money is that they put little or nothing out
Stuart Wilde
#36. Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#37. Damian: How many are above me?
Tyler: Seven.
Damian: Great. Below?
Tyler: Two. Watch yourself. They've got spears.
Damian: Great. i love spears.
Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson
#38. Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc.
Thomas Jefferson
#39. Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
Nathan Kirsh
#40. It is called Giordano Bruno after the sixteenth-century Roman Catholic scholar who held that there are an infinity of worlds and that many are inhabited. For this and other crimes he was burned at the stake in the year 1600.
Carl Sagan
#41. Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
David Hume
#42. This is the sacrifice of Christians: we, being many, are one body in Christ. And this also is the sacrifice which the Church continually celebrates in the sacrament of the altar, known to the faithful, in which she teaches that she herself is offered in the offering she makes to God.
Augustine Of Hippo
#43. Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.
John Steinbeck
#44. Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
Voltaire
#45. We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
Ronald Reagan
#46. The disease that has, on several occasions, nearly killed me does kill tens of thousands of people every year: most are young, most die unnecessarily, and many are among the most imaginative and gifted that we as a society have.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#48. Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is ... But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them ...
Francis Hutcheson
#50. We found some scientists think that there are basically three emotions. Others went up to 27. Others had 16. Some were in the middle. So we were kind of left with no definitive answer to our basic question - how many are there?
Pete Docter
#51. If everybody feels fear when approaching something totally new in life - yet so many are out there doing it despite the fear - then we must conclude that fear is not the problem.
Susan Jeffers
#52. Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the excellency of Jesus.
John Newton
#54. Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.
Ron Kind
#55. There is not a man born among us who dreams - at first - of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.
Michelle Sagara
#56. Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.
Jesse Jackson
#57. As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.
Horace
#58. It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#59. It will be easy for us once we receive the ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many are there who plunge
into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?
Soren Kierkegaard
#60. Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
Barry Ritholtz
#61. Whatever the reason, too many are no longer willing to call evil by its name. There is no vision. And when there is no vision, the people perish.
Glenn Beck
#62. I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.
Lawrence Lessig
#63. All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier
Kate Burridge
#64. Many are arrogant because of the knowledge they possess, but they have no knowledge of how arrogant they are.
Maddy Malhotra
#65. People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.
Robert Kiyosaki
#66. In the brief monthly reports of the Security Police, I only want figures on how many Jews have been shipped off and how many are currently left.
Heinrich Himmler
#67. From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.
Fabiola Gianotti
#68. Too many of the elderly do not have the family or the communal attachments necessary to feel valued; too many are widowed or otherwise alone; too many live in surroundings where they are essentially without the companionship necessary to stimulate a mind in danger of deteriorating.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#69. There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.
George Santayana
#70. That means 19 or 20 of the books of the NT (New Testament) are anonymous. Many are blatantly pseudepigraphic (forgeries, see next section), with famous names applied to artificially promote veracity.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#71. Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.
W. Somerset Maugham
#72. I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.
Robert M. Sapolsky
#73. Many are those who could. Few are those who did.
James Bastian
#74. Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.
David Brooks
#75. Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself.
Khalil Gibran
#76. Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!
Philippe Kahn
#77. The arduous nature of practical Christianity makes so many people choose theoretical Christianity! Both are however good, but the former is weightier, noble and solemn than the later! Many are called, but few are dedicated!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#78. The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character.
Nicholas Eberstadt
#79. All know that they must die; but many are deceived by picturing to themselves death at such a distance as if it could never come near them.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#80. Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.
Pablo Casals
#82. Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If we can't control the body and its appetites, how can we control our tongues, or overcome the emotions or anger, envy, jealousy, or hatred?
Stephen Covey
#83. Many are secretly seeking their own ends in what they do, yet know it not.
Thomas A Kempis
#84. In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.
Roger Ebert
#85. Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.
Norman Vincent Peale
#86. Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.
Denise Levertov
#87. See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.
Samuel Rutherford
#88. For 'we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.' And 'many are the afflictions of the righteous.'" "But the Lord delivereth him out of them all,
Martha Finley
#89. need a poet who can really write. Nowadays it seems like 'many are gone, and those that live are bad'.12
Aristophanes
#90. He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
Francis Bacon
#91. It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.
Abraham Maslow
#92. Too many are willing to sit at God's table, but not work in his field.
Vance Havner
#93. What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?
J.G. Holland
#94. That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living.
Henry David Thoreau
#95. The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Many are locked up indefinitely. They have not been tried or even charged with any crime.
Stephen Kinzer
#96. All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.
James A. Baldwin
#97. Many too many are born: for the superfluous ones was the state devised!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache.
Kahlil Gibran
#99. Cicero said: "Not to have a mania for buying, is to possess a revenue." Many are carried away by the habit of bargain-buying. "Here's something wonderfully cheap; let's buy it." "Have you any use for it?" "No, not at present; but it is sure to come in useful, some time.
Orison Swett Marden
#100. I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out. Others are in prison. But in many cases they practice the teachings much better than those who meet me every day.
Bell Hooks
