Quotes with man-in-the-street

Quotes 1501 till 1520 of 4652.

  • A. E. Housman Hope lies to mortals
    And most believe her,
    But man's deceiver
    Was never mine.
    Source: More Poems (1936) No. 6, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Alexander Pope Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Babe Ruth How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William James How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Benjamin Robert Haydon How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness.
    Benjamin Robert Haydon
    English painter (1786 - 1846)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation - for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Ovid How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Elbert Hubbard How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Marcus Aurelius How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Agatha Christie How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
    Source: Death on the Nile (1937)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Anais Nin How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Quentin Crisp However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Raymond Chandler However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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