Quotes with down-on-his-luck

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  • Clare Boothe Luce Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Remy de Gourmont Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Felix E. Schelling Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.
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  • William James Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Smiles Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Woody Allen Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alistair Cooke Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Henry Miller Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Man has his will, but woman has her way.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Sigmund Freud Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Lily Tomlin Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Aristotle Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Oscar Wilde Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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