Quotes with one-man

Quotes 4741 till 4760 of 10005.

  • Stephen Leacock Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • J. B. Priestley Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Norman Macewan Many a man never fails because he never tries.
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  • Jim Backus Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
    Jim Backus
    American radio, television, film, and voice (1913 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • B. C. Forbes Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • Bruce Barton Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Norman Douglas Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Francis Bacon Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Juvenal Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Thomas Jones Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.
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  • Winston Churchill Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Billy Porter Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.' And then they get here and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!' It's not just show up one day and do it. It's show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Bob Weinstein Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.
    Bob Weinstein
    American film producer (1954 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • George Santayana Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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