Quotes with man-in-the-street

Quotes 381 till 400 of 4652.

  • John Steinbeck A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Gian Vincenzo Gravina A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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  • Bert Leston Taylor A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Robert Frost A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Ezra Pound A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Anthony Holden A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Elbert Hubbard A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Frank Dane A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Alfred E. Wiggam A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
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  • Frank Vanderlip A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.
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  • Elbert Hubbard A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Walter Bagehot A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Joseph Addison A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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