Quotes with down-on-his-luck

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  • Henry S. Haskins The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively, but says nothing.
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov The tiny madman in his padded cell.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Boo Weekley The tour life is real tough on a marriage. To the young guy who is just getting his PGA Tour card and is in a serious relationship, my advice is to wait three years before getting married.
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Calvin Harris The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Mark Twain The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Cyril Connolly The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Russell Lynes The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Carine Roitfeld The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Phillips Brooks The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Arthur C. Brooks The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Jorge Luis Borges The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Algernon Sydney The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Jonathan Swift The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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