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.
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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.
    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.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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