Quotes with fellow-countrymen

Quotes 141 till 160 of 165.

  • Herman Melville We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Carl Karcher We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.
    Carl Karcher
    American businessman (1917 - 2008)
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  • Amy Vanderbilt We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.
    Amy Vanderbilt
    American author, authority on etiquette (1908 - 1974)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Arthur Keith We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Dean Rusk We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
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  • Kenneth Grahame Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am - my friends get round me - we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories - and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.
    Kenneth Grahame
    British novelist (1859 - 1932)
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  • August Strindberg What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Benedict Arnold What do you think would be my fate if my misguided countrymen were to take me prisoner?
    Benedict Arnold
    American military officer (1741 - 1801)
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  • Joseph Conrad What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Aristotle What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Kin Hubbard When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Harry S. Truman When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Harry S. Truman Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Seneca Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Kin Hubbard Why doesn't the fellow who says, ''I'm no speechmaker'' let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • James A. Froude Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Ronald Reagan You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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