Quotes with plains-man

Quotes 3301 till 3320 of 4539.

  • Henry David Thoreau The man for who the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Horace The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Charles Lamb The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Boris Sidis The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
    The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Hermann Hesse The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Albert Einstein The man of science is a poor philosopher.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Edward Young The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • William Cowper The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • William Shakespeare The man that hath no music in himself; nor is not move with concord of sweet sounds; is fit for treasons stratagems, and spoils.
    The merchant of Venice (1597)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Edward Young The man that makes a character, makes foes.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Calvin Coolidge The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Oscar Wilde The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Roger Bannister The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
    Roger Bannister
    English athlete and physician (1929 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Cardinal de Retz The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Roy L. Smith The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
    Roy L. Smith
    American clergyman and author
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