Quotes with man’s

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  • Charles Dickens Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Mark Twain Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Ruskin Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Anatole France Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Of all the works of man I like best
    Those which have been used.
    The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
    The knives and forks whose wooden handles
    Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
    Seemed to me the noblest.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Of all the works of man [Von allen Werken] (c. 193
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Chimamanda Adichie Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.
    We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014)
    Chimamanda Adichie
    Nigerian poet (1977 - )
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Alexander Pope Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Confucius Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Andrew Taylor Still Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
    Andrew Taylor Still
    American physician and surgeon (1828 - 1917)
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  • Marcel Proust Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Bob Dylan Oh God said to Abraham, Kill me a son.
    Abe says, Man, you must be puttin' me on.
    God say, No. Abe say, What?
    God say, You can do what you want Abe, but
    the next time you see me comin' you better run.
    Well Abe says, Where do you want this killin' done?
    God says, Out on Highway 61.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Oh man! There is no planet, sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Adam Weishaupt Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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