Quotes with man-on-the-street

Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 4652.

  • George Bernard Shaw If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Nicholas If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
    Ben Nicholas
    Australian actor
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  • Margaret Thatcher If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Lewis E. Lawes If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
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  • Elbert Hubbard If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Woodrow Wilson If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Alexander Smith If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Bradley Cooper If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
    Bradley Cooper
    American actor and filmmaker (1975 - )
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  • Bob Corker If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Alexander Pope If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Addison Mizner Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
    Addison Mizner
    American architect (1872 - 1933)
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  • Walter Lippmann Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Francis Bacon Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Oscar Wilde Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Francis Bacon Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Cyril Connolly Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Samuel Johnson In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Diogenes of Sinope In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
    Diogenes of Sinope
    Greek philosopher (412 - 323)
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  • Babe Paley In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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