Quotes with man-being

Quotes 4641 till 4660 of 6261.

  • Lord Acton The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Oscar Wilde The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Henry Ford The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aeschylus The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Mark Twain The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aaron Hill The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Will Rogers The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bert Williams The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes.
    The American Magazine, Volume 85
    Bert Williams
    American entertainer and comedian (1874 - 1922)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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