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.
    Tad Williams
     
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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.
    Source: 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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