Quotes with man-being

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  • Sacha Guitry When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
    Sacha Guitry
    French playwright, actor and director (ps. of Alexandre Georges- (1885 - 1957)
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  • Robert Bolt When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
    Robert Bolt
     
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  • Don Marquis When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lord Chesterfield When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • C. S. Forester When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
    Source: The African Queen (1935)
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Euripides When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Aeschylus When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Mark Twain When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Jonson When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Edith Evans When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
    Source: Observer (30 september 1956)
    Edith Evans
    English actress (1888 - 1976)
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Alice Duer Miller When a woman like that whom I've seen so much,
    All of a sudden drops out of touch;
    Is always busy and never can,
    Spare you a moment, it means a man.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Oscar Wilde When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George D. Prentice When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Bayard Rustin When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Benjamin Harrison When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
    Source: State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Bonnie Bassler When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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