Quotes with plains-man

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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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  • 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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  • Marcus Aurelius Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Sir George Jessel Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
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  • Burt Reynolds Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ogden Nash Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Samuel Johnson Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Helen Rowland Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Henry Lewis Stimson Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Jean Kerr Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
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    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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