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When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
― Franklin Pierce Adams
American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960) -
When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
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When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
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When tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today than the weight is more than a man can bear.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they ''don't understand'' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.
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When women kiss, it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) -
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and one represents opportunity.
Source: Indianapolis, 12-04-1959 -
When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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