Quotes with man-on-the-street

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  • Charles Dickens A man in public life expects to be sneered at - it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Joseph Conrad A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bernard Malamud A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all a loneliness and men know it best.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • Anzia Yezierska A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Demosthenes A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Samuel Johnson A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Paul Valery A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Saadi A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Leo Tolstoy A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • James Allen A man is literally what he thinks
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • George Santayana A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Cesare Pavese A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Joe E. Lewis A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • E. B. White A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Richard Nixon A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Victor Hugo A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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