Quotes with gentle-man

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  • Robert Cecil A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
    Robert Cecil
    English statesman (1563 - 1612)
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  • John Churton Collins A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
    John Churton Collins
    British literary critic (1848 - 1908)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Lord Chesterfield A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Francis Bacon A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Machiavelli A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabriel A wise man's question contains half the answer.
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  • David Hume A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Sir John Lubbock A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • James Stephens A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
    James Stephens
    Irish writer and poet (1882 - 1950)
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  • Betty Friedan A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Lord George Byron A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Julie Burchill A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Lawrence Durrell A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Louise Erdrich A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Anthony Trollope A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Oliver Herford A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.
    Oliver Herford
    American writer, cartoonist (1860 - 1935)
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