Quotes with man-being

Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 6261.

  • Brian K. Vaughan Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • François Rabelais He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing.
    François Rabelais
    French writer (1483 - 1553)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Ada Leverson He had no special hobbies, but he needed luxury in general of a kind, and especially the luxury of getting things in a hurry, his theory being that everything comes to the man who won't wait.
    Tenterhooks (1912) Ch. vii
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Voltaire He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Winston Churchill He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Epictetus He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • William Shakespeare He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Johnson He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Ellery Channing He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • James Baldwin He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • John Donne He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bob Dylan He not busy being born is busy dying.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jeremy Taylor He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Jonathan Swift He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
    Polite Conversation (1738)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Mario Puzo He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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