Quotes with man-on-the-street

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  • W. H. Auden To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Emily Post To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Thomas Merton To the truly humble man the ordinary ways and customs and habits of men are not a matter of conflict.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • William Shakespeare To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Calvin Harris To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Alexis Carrel To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Aristotle To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Herman Melville Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bridget Moynahan Tom Selleck brings in the babes of all ages, I have to tell you. You can be 60, 80, or 16 and still love that man.
    Bridget Moynahan
    American actress and model (1971 - )
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  • Bernard Crick Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 6, A Defence of Politics Against False Friends
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Winston Churchill Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry Miller Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Tranquility is the old man's milk.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • John Burroughs Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Mark Twain True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Larry Mcmurtry True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends - and he accepts it.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Francis H. Bradley True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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