Quotes with man-in-the-street

Quotes 2741 till 2760 of 4652.

  • John Locke No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Benjamin Haydon No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Booker T. Washington No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Miller No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • John Knox No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.
    John Knox
     
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  • Blaise Pascal No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • A. Alvarez No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
    A. Alvarez
    English poet, novelist, essayist and critic (1929 - 2019)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Aristotle No one loves the man whom he fears.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti No one man is superior to the game.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Marguerite Duras No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Bruce Barton No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Albrecht Durer No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • B. F. Skinner No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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