Quotes with man-in-the-street

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  • Don Marquis When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lord Chesterfield When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • C. S. Forester When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
    Source: The African Queen (1935)
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Euripides When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Aeschylus When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Jonson When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Edith Evans When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
    Source: Observer (30 september 1956)
    Edith Evans
    English actress (1888 - 1976)
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Alice Duer Miller When a woman like that whom I've seen so much,
    All of a sudden drops out of touch;
    Is always busy and never can,
    Spare you a moment, it means a man.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Oscar Wilde When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George D. Prentice When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Benjamin Harrison When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
    Source: State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bhagavad Gita When he has no lust, no hatred,
    A man walks safely among the things of lust and hatred
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Marc Chagall When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.
    Marc Chagall
    Russian-French artist and painter (1887 - 1985)
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  • Abraham Lincoln When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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