Quotes with gentle-man

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  • Samuel Johnson Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Khaled Hosseini Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Walter Benjamin Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Alphonse De Lamartine Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
    Alphonse De Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • John Gay Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Paul De Man Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Paul De Man Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • A. Cornelius Celsus Live in rooms full of light; Avoid heavy food; Be moderate in the drinking of wine; Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics; Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water; Change surroundings and take long journeys; Strictly avoid frightening ideas; Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements; Listen to music.
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  • Bow Wow LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • George F. Will Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called ''self-interestedness.'' This was not a
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Billie Holiday Lord I love my man, tell the world I do
    I love my man, tell the world I do
    But when he mistreats me
    Makes me feel so blue.
    Billies Blues
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ayn Rand Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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  • Nicolas Bentley lt is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.
    Nicolas Bentley
    British illustrator, cartoonist and writer (1907 - 1978)
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