Quotes with man-being

Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 6261.

  • Joseph Heller He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
    Joseph Heller
    American author (1923 - 1999)
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  • Oscar Wilde He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville He was as great as a man can be without morality.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Napoleon He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Buddha He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Herman Melville He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Tad Williams He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bob Dylan He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anna C. Brackett He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
    Anna C. Brackett
    American philosopher and feminist
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  • George Berkeley He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
    George Berkeley
    Irish philosopher and bishop (1685 - 1753)
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  • Oliver Cromwell He who stops being better stops being good.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Blaise Pascal He who will know fully the vanity of man has only to consider the causes and effects of love.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ernest Renan He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • William Wycherley He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Arthur Miller He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Saki He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
    Saki
    British writer, pen name of Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916)
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  • Clarence Darrow He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. [On Calvin Coolidge]
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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