Quotes with four-and-a-half

Quotes 1561 till 1580 of 25414.

  • Leo Tolstoy A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • George Santayana A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Cesare Pavese A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Victor Hugo A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • John Banville A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • James Allen A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Beryl Bainbridge A man is two people, himself and his cock. A man always takes his friend to the party. Of the two, the friend is the nicer, being more able to show his feelings.
    Beryl Bainbridge
    English writer (1932 - 2010)
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  • Israel Zangwill A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
    Israel Zangwill
    British writer (1864 - 1926)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • John Milton A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Aldous Huxley A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Gurdjieff A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • John F. Kennedy A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • John C. Maxwell A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
    John C. Maxwell
    American author, speaker, and pastor (1947 - )
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  • Joseph Addison A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • William Frederick Book A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
    William Frederick Book
    American psychologist and professor of psychology
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