Quotes with down-on-his-luck

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  • Barbara Corcoran Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Phyllis Diller Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
    Phyllis Diller
    American actress and stand-up (1917 - 2012)
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  • Martin Luther King Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Jung Chang When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.
    Wild Swans (2008) 147
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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  • Oswald Chambers When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Bette Davis When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
    William Martin - The Best Liberal Quotes Ever
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Mack R. Douglas When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.
    Mack R. Douglas
    American author
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  • Edgar W. Howe When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Anthony Trollope When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Prins Philip When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
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  • Prince Philip When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
    Prince Philip
    British prince, husband of Queen Elizabeth II (1921 - 2021)
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  • Helen Rowland When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Robert Bolt When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
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  • C. S. Forester When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
    The African Queen (1935)
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Carl Sandburg When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
    Wade House: one of Wisconsins first stagecoach inns, its preservation and restoration, Kohler Co., 1957, p. 7
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Blaise Pascal When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Mark Twain When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Elie Wiesel When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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