Quotes with man-in-the-street

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  • B. B. King Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • B. B. King Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bobby Orr Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Mark Twain Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Malthus Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XVIII, 11, 16
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Henry van Dyke Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Fred A. Allen Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ovid Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Midrash Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning
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  • Lord Mancroft Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.
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  • Seneca Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alexander Pope Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • John Dryden Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Homer Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • James Baldwin Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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