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.

  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.

  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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