Quotes with plains-man

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  • Laurence Sterne So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Antonin Artaud So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Franklin So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Edward Dahlberg So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Boethius So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • John Dryden So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Bruce Springsteen So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Born in the U.S.A.
    Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Billie Holiday Some men like me talkin' happy
    Some calls it snappy
    Some call me honey
    Others think I got money
    Some tell me baby you're built for speed
    Now if you put that all together
    Makes me everything a good man needs.
    Billies Blues
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Helen Rowland Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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  • Plutarch Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.''
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Willa Cather Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Bill Goldberg Sometimes I think back to everything I've been through, and I wonder, 'Man, how the hell did I get here?'
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Boris Kodjoe Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Alfred Einstein Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.
    Alfred Einstein
    German-American musicologist (1880 - 1952)
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