Quotes with man-in-the-street

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  • Juvenal A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Jane Austen A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • John Stuart Mill A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • William Somerset Maugham A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • C. S. Lewis A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Johnson A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man who is much talked about is always very attractive.
    The importance of being earnest (1895) act 2
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Babe Ruth A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profits he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Phillips Brooks A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Archibald Macleish A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Henry James A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • E. B. White A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Bertolt Brecht A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Malcolm X A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bertolt Brecht A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Seneca A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Nelson Mandela A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.
    De lange weg naar vrijheid
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Charles M. Schwab A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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