A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.


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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not stickin...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a con...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
I'm not interested in being liked.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me....
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to ma...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting t...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's i...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
You can only go forward by making mistakes.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal s...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You ca...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
All generalizations are false, including this one.
ALEXANDER CHASE
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
I want to empower women.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
A promise must never be broken.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to...
ALEXANDER LOWEN
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood...
ALEXANDER HAIG
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
ALEXANDER POPE
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
ALEXANDER POPE
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPE
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
ALEXANDER POPE
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE
The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPE
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPE
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPE
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own pe...
ALEXANDER POPE
Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
ALEXANDER POPE
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE
We do not even see the sun for several months in the north of Sweden.
ALEXANDER AHNDORIL