Quotes with man’s

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• One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

  ― Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.

  ― Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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• One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

  ― Abraham H. Maslow
  American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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• Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

  ― Alexandre Dumas père
  French writer (1802 - 1870)
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• Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
  

  ― Eleanor Roosevelt
  American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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• Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

  ― Novalis
  German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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• Only for his dreams is a man responsible, his actions are what he must do.

  ― John Butler Yeats
  Irish painter (1839 - 1922)
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• Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.

  ― John Dryden
  English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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• Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

  ― Ronald Knox
  English Catholic priest, theologian and author (1888 - 1957)
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• Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

  ― Hugh Blair
  Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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• Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women.

  ― Groucho Marx
  American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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• Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

  ― Frederick W. Robertson
  English divine (1816 - 1853)
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• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  ― Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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• Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.

  Source: The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 24

  ― Joan Didion
  American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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• Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

  ― Ayn Rand
  Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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• Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

  ― Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

  ― Clark Kenneth
   
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• Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.

  Source: Speech at the Carrie Tuggle Institute, Birmingham (date unknown) [6]

  ― Booker T. Washington
  American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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• Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

  ― George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• potentialities
• possibilities
• consciousness
• architecture
• opportunity
• bald-headed

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