Quotes with man’s

Quotes 3561 till 3580 of 4532.

  • Arthur Young The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
    Arthur Young
     
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  • Helen Rowland The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • E. B. White The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it - the speed of his acceptance.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Marguerite Duras The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Samuel Butler The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Publilius Syrus The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Aneurin Bevan The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Bobby Jones The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
    Bobby Jones
    American golfer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Max Lerner The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Norman Cousins The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Heywood Brown The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
    Heywood Brown
     
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  • Germaine Greer The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • William Blake The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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