Quotes 3801 till 3820 of 3899.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
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Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
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Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
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And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool - motley's the only wear.
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Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.
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Beggar: One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
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Coward: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
The Devil's Dictionary -
Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
Referring to Arturo Ui (representing Adolf Hitler), in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941) -
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man - and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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Down went the owners - greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.
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