Quotes with leading-man

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  • Will Rogers Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • William Shakespeare Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Aeschylus For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Publilius Syrus From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Ezra Pound Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Alfred Adler God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Charles Lamb How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • William Faulkner I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Machiavelli I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Joseph De Maistre I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • William Shakespeare I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles Sumner I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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  • Joseph Addison I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Gloria Steinem I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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