Himself Quotes

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Man is a universe within himself.

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.

The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.