Quotes with man-being

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  • André Gide Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Alice S. Rossi Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well-paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.
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  • Plautus Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Katherine F. Gerould Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful - just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.
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  • Franklin P. Jones Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.
    Franklin P. Jones
    American journalist (1908 - 1980)
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  • Decimus Magnus Ausonius Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
    Decimus Magnus Ausonius
    Roman poet (310 - 395)
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  • C. Patmore Nothing remains with man unless it is insinuated with some delight.
    C. Patmore
     
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.''
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Nothing so lifts a man from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Eric Butterworth Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Thomas Carlyle Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • S. I. Hayakawa Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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  • Kin Hubbard Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Kingsley Amis Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
    Source: Memoirs (1991)
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • A. E. Housman Now hollow fires burn out to black,
    And lights are guttering low:
    Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
    And leave your friends and go.

    Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,
    Look not to left nor right:
    In all the endless road you tread
    There's nothing but the night.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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