Quotes with gentle-man

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  • Oscar Wilde All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Don Marquis An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Joseph Addison An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Agnes Smedley And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Voltaire Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Samuel Butler Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Albert Einstein Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Harry S. Truman Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • André Malraux Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • James Thurber Art, the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Publilius Syrus At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • St. Teresa of Avila Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Steve Jobs Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Thomas Paine Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • John Dryden Beware the fury of a patient man.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Bernard Shaw But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lewis Mumford By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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